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Originally posted by AaronWilson
First the special forces currently doing drills in the middle east will "liberate" syria, install puppet leader. Then, onwards to Iran.
While I have known about F-22s deployed to the Gulf region
Originally posted by stumason
Originally posted by AaronWilson
First the special forces currently doing drills in the middle east will "liberate" syria, install puppet leader. Then, onwards to Iran.
That exercise, Eager Lion, has nothing to do with Syria, nor is it the first time that the exercise has been held. It is a long running, annual exercise.
Originally posted by SrWingCommander
reply to post by cranspace
I find the better part of two wings of F-15C's being deployed as (if not more) significant as the F-22s. Your looking at probable 40-60+ US F-15Cs alone in theater. That's on top of the carrier air wings.
The first sign of the coming U.S. air raid was when the enemy radar and air-defense missile sites began exploding. The strikers were Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, flying unseen and faster than the speed of sound, 50,000 feet over the battlefield. Having emptied their weapons bays of super-accurate, 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs, the Raptors turned to engage enemy jet fighters rising in defense of their battered allies on the ground.
That’s when all hell broke loose. As the Raptors smashed the enemy jets with Amraam and Sidewinder missiles, nimble Air Force F-16s swooped in to reinforce the F-22s, launching their own air-to-air missiles and firing guns to add to the aerial carnage.
With enemy defenses collapsing, B-1 bombers struck. Several of the 150-ton, swing-wing warplanes, having flown 10 hours from their base in South Dakota, launched radar-evading Jassm cruise missiles that slammed into ground targets, pulverizing them with their 2,000-pound warheads. Its weapons expended, the strike force streaked away. Behind it, the enemy’s planes and ground forces lay in smoking ruin.
The devastating air strike on April 4 involved real warplanes launching a mix of real and computer-simulated weapons at mock targets scattered across the U.S. military’s vast Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex near Fort Yukon, a tiny former fur trading post, population 583. “Operation Chimichanga,” as the exercise was reportedly designated, was the first-ever test of a new Air Force long-range strike team combining upgraded Lockheed Martin F-22s and Boeing B-1s carrying the latest air-launched munitions, along with old-school fighters, tankers and radar planes for support.
Originally posted by cranspace
reply to post by SrWingCommander
I thought the F-22s were grounded due to the fact the pilots will not fly them
Due to oxygen life support problems
This however could be a figment of my imagination
So feel free to correct me if indeed i got that wrong
Cran
Originally posted by stirling
The unity goverment in Isreal could well mean a strike is imminent.
the US airforce may be the backcatcher for the isrealis,but i dont think they would be used in an initial strike unless the situation were radically altered....
I imagine isrealis F 15s(sold to them at scrap prices by none other than rabbi dov zackheim of 9/11 fame..)..
Are probaly every bit the planes we have....given that they have refuelling capability now (courtesy of US) as well as AWACs same same....they will likely be the first to go in.....along with cruise missiles from their subs too.....
Originally posted by johnthejedi24
I thought the F-22s that were being deployed were block 3.0 models, not 3.1? The earlier variations before 3.1 do not have an air-to-ground capability.
The six F-22 Raptors currently at Al Dhafra, UAE, belong to the 49th Fighter Wing, based at Holloman AFB, New Mexico...
...They are all Block 3.0 (or Block 30) examples meaning that neither of them has received the latest upgrade (Block 3.1) that has brought the capability to find and engage ground targets using the Synthetic Aperture Radar mapping and eight GBU-39 SDBs (Small Diameter Bombs) to the troubled stealthy fighter.