Im pretty sure they would, there range isnt near enough to get to Iran.
Maybe suicide missions?
More than likely refueling.

Im pretty sure Iran would have pockets of Shia'revolutionary guards situated along the border on the iraqi side, thus to alert iranian sam sites on incoming aircraft, regardless of wether it be American or Israeli.

Likewise, Turkey and syria would probably alert them to incoming aircraft.

Again, them activating sam sites just gives them away, or mode they use to track.

They'll probably take out all sam sites on the way.

Originally posted by MikeboydUS
Yes it has been around a long time but were the fuel pods empty? Thats what I want to know? If they were empty whats the range they could of flown?

i understand that your trying to build a case of an israeli war plane on a mission to iran, but, i just dont see it.

more likley, the israeli air plane was taking pictures along the boarder of syria. then, happened to venture too far into the syrian air space ( on purpose, or not ).

syria and israel will have there own war to fight over golan heights. iran has nothing to do with it, other than material support and training of syrian forces.

this was no training mission to iran, in my opinion.

They could fly over Turkey and completely ignore Iraqi airspace

Except Turkey is not going to grnat them to fly over their airspace. Iraq seems the more logical solution but they have to have permission from Jordan as well. Maybe Jordan does not have the military might to deny them flight over their space, but there would easily be political consequence seeing as Jordan is probably one of their more accepting border states.

Originally posted by DYepes
I strongly believe that if the Syrians wanted to blow the jets out of the sky they would have. If they shoot down the jets, Israel will just be all like "look at the evil Syrians, they hate us Jews so much they have unjustly killed our pilots...

If I read the article correctly it said that the jets were in SYRIAN airspace. They had EVERY right to shoot them down. No ifs. No buts. The Syrians could reply, "Look at the evil Israelis, they were going to bomb us..."

I thought Israeli jets usually did air attack drills on US warships?

cnn is saying that israel attacked syria(amd syria shot at planes) and that israeli ground forces 'may have been involved'...

it was about 15 minutes ago and they have not said anything else. i will look for a link

I find it interesting that Syria is not hopping up and down about being "bombed" by Israel.
No real threats of retaliation, no threats from Iran-who has a mutual defense pact with Syria.
It may very well have been destroying a weapons bunkers/tunnel/transportation truck.

They might have then to admit arming the Hezbollah terrorists-an act of war in its own right.

I must agree, this gets more and more interesting the more we learn.
I also feel we never really fully understand why for several years.


[edit on 9/11/2007 by mrmonsoon]

That region of the world is in a perpetual state of war. There has always been fighting there and there always will be fighting there. It doesn't surprise me a bit that Israeli aircraft would cross into Syrian air space. It's Israels way of leaving a calling card and reminding Syria they are vulnerable. Israel will not be the one to initiate a war in the region, the arab states have already proven they can not accept the existance of an Israeli state with the past wars they've started.

Israeli aircraft in Syrian air space...big deal. We did the same thing with the Russians during the cold war. SR-71's from Alaska would deliberately fly into Russian air space to toy with Russian air defenses.

For all of you ignorant fools that think Israel is causing the problems in the region, just think about this. Jordan, which lies on Israel's Eastern border and is an Arab state, is not bothered or harrassed by Israel.......because they leave Israel alone. The other arab states should learn from that example.

How very convenient the saturation of 9-11 newscast as a cover for an Israeli air strike. Now that's just beautiful! Let's watch for any other "deep behind enemy lines activities" in the coming hours & days.