Israel strikes Tehran

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[TreeA10]

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

Shout out to the herbs: NKAWTG

 

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.

[AC&W]

23 hours ago, Biff_T said:

I wonder what an Iranian boom operator looks like? 

*looked like

Appears the queen is dead.

 

[icohftb]

46 minutes ago, AC&W said:

*looked like

Appears the queen is dead.

 

What's it say in English?

[AC&W]

28 minutes ago, icohftb said:

What's it say in English?

"At a distance of approximately 2,300 kilometers, the Air Force struck an Iranian refueling aircraft a short time ago at Mashhad airport in eastern Iran. The Air Force is working to achieve air superiority throughout Iran. This is the farthest strike since the operation began."

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I wonder how far the Israeli tankers are pushing up this far in.