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Iran’s Air Power: Is it Powerful enough for the US?

3 Sep 2022

But with the latest developments in Iran regarding the nuclear weapons, which are giving sleepless nights to the West, especially to the US and Israel, the atmosphere in the international arena has become tense. [...] Due to the indirect angle of the engine to the air inlets, the radar reflectivity is reduced, and it allows the angled design of the inlet ducts to the surface to get radar energy waves, just like in the F-3. [...] • The hot exhaust gas mixes with cold air through the inlet ducts, and gets cooler before it gets out of the exhaust system, to reduce the heat effect on the surface of the aircraft. [...] 2 SUMMER 2013 (April-June) IRAN’S AIR POWER As for Israel, its the ejection of the Iraqis from Kuwait in 1991, military has been the bombing of Serbia in 1999, the kicking out of the best equipped the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001, and and best trained in the defeat of Saddam and his cronies in 2003. [...] Hence, the debate which has been going for some time regarding the phasing out of manned aircraft and the taking over of their role by the UAVs and the UCAVs could be put to rest with the Predator being fired upon — at least, till the time machines have the capability to completely take over humans, which is not possible.
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