Israel strikes Tehran

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[TreeA10]

On 6/13/2025 at 8:47 AM, BFM this said:

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It's been a few years but I recall hearing reports of the Israeli AF doing large strike package exercises in the Med. They would have strikers, escort, jammers, and tankers flying west a long way then turn around and fly home.  If you measured the distance, flipped it on a map going east, you end up in Iran.  Things that make you go, hhmmmm.

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6 hours ago, TreeA10 said:

It's been a few years but I recall hearing reports of the Israeli AF doing large strike package exercises in the Med. They would have strikers, escort, jammers, and tankers flying west a long way then turn around and fly home.  If you measured the distance, flipped it on a map going east, you end up in Iran.  Things that make you go, hhmmmm.

November/December '79 we were flying gunships out of Guam to replicate time and distance for our mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Take off from Guam, fly up to Korea, hang out for awhile, and back. Average flight time 18 hours at 10,000 feet unpressurized, max continuous power, doing about 215 IAS, two ARs. That part of the mission got scrubbed.