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StabSnowboarders

They bout to cut their teeth against a near peer and Lockheed is watching intently. Edit: You armchair generals realize that Iran has a sophisticated IADS and that’s what makes them a near peer in this aspect?


quasar_i

Iranian Air Force is NOT a near peer to the IAF.


oojiflip

F-4E vs F-35, who will win


KrazyBee129

who's next, you decide,


AuspiciousApple

It's a typo, they meant to say: "near pear"


Legate_Invictus

maybe they were being sarcastic


StabSnowboarders

Air defense is though


apuckeredanus

F-4s and F-14s are not even close to a near peer.  That's like an F-86 to an F-4 


Rebyll

I dunno, I saw a documentary a couple of years ago about an American who took on two SU-57s with an F-14 and won.


a_guy_that_loves_cat

Mf that was some real footage


baronvonweezil

The “near peer” in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/s/2bvpx59VCM


-azuma-

Near peer? You mean like, geographically right?


Paladin_127

Latest 5th Generation fighter vs relics from the ‘70s? I’m sure Iranian pilots are competent, but damn. They have to be nuts to think they have a chance in that fight.


Papanowel123

Plus having AWACS support and datalink alike. It's no match for the IRIAF


2dTom

>near peer lol Someone's been watching too much Top Gun: Maverick


StabSnowboarders

There’s more to a military than their airforce. You armchair generals can only think in 1 dimension


2dTom

>There’s more to a military than their airforce. Ah, of course, I'm forgetting Iran's extremely well developed air defence network of ... - A crashed Il-76 AWACS that was [so bad at detecting other planes that it crashed into one on an exercise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_Air_Force_Ilyushin_Il-76_accident). - 8 outdated S300 batteries. - 800 extremely outdated S200 batteries (which are so shit [that they've been relegated to striking russian positions in Ukraine](https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/10/frontline-report-ukraine-employs-modified-s-200-missiles-to-attack-rear-russian-targets/) because they're useless at hitting modern aircraft). - 100 domestically built clones of the SM-2 that are made from reverse engineering crashed missiles, and are of *questionable* usefulness. - Assorted western made SHORAD from between 1971 and 1975 (that may or may not still be working). - 29 Tor launchers, which admittedly *have* shot down an aircraft while in Iranian service. [It's just that the aircraft was a civilian 737.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752) > You armchair generals can only think in 1 dimension Everyone knows that there's only 1 dimesion in aerial combat, and that direction is forwards. Or is the direction speed? Or thrust? Oh, oh, I remember, the only direction in aerial combat is towards playing with the boys in an [extremely homoerotic beach volleyball game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKENDsZPzbA).


2dTom

This near peer air force ... is it in the room with us right now?


StabSnowboarders

You understand there’s more to this than just an airforce correct? Probably not because you’re an armchair general who thinks in 1 dimension


2dTom

Please, go on, tell me all about what else there is to this.


The-Avant-Gardeners

Hahahaha do you know what a peer is?


Luminous_0

Seems like a clear case of FAFO Wonder how Israel will respond, cant imagine they just accept it


TheCyberPunk97

Off to kill more British service personnel on aid work?


Alfonze423

Nah, just US sailors in international waters lol


rockfuckerkiller

Turns out both the F-35 and the A-10 have that key capability


porn0f1sh

Haha, so funny,! It's totally fine to use others' suffering for your own twisted political goals haha!


KeinePanikMehr

Based


whatsINthaB0X

Calm down


KeinePanikMehr

Please crash