a key step for direct, precise attacks, and the use of specialized ammunition

Benjamin Netanyahu has assured this Saturday that they have achieved “total air supremacy over Iran.”

This implies going from ranged attacks to executing direct attacks. Something that, without a doubt, allows save costs by avoiding using long range ammunitionincrease the frequency and amplitude of the air campaign.

However, the control of Iranian airspace by the United States and Israel is a victory that cannot yet be claimed.

Iran along with the rest of the countries that are its allies in Middle East, like the Houthis in Yemen, They are counterattacking the US and Israeli military with cheap technology and have tested the most advanced fighters.

Relative supremacy

Secure this air supremacy is relativeaccording to the specialized defense newspaper TWZ.

This would mean a change in the contest because both the United States and Israel would go from attacking from a distance to making direct attacks. Something that makes it easier to have control of the airspace.

However, claiming that both the United States and Iran control the airspace is not entirely accurate. Because? Because Iran has mobile land-based air defenses that are very easy to hide and surprise the enemy, the American fighters.

Furthermore, its systems loitering SAM anti-aircraft missiles They are exotic systems that favor that shield over Iran.

But not only that, and it is necessary SEAD support and electronic warfare that directly affect American fourth-generation fighters.

These will take on new risks, especially in the east of the country by carrying outdirect attacks that increase the number of objectives achieved.

Constant pressure on the enemy

The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General of the United States Air Force, Dan Razin Caine assures that CENTCOM is changing.

There has been a shift from large packages of deliberate strikes with ranged munitions “outside the enemy’s ability to fire, to precision support strikes on Iran,” Caine says.

This allows you to achieve “greater precision on the objective” and facilitates ““accelerate the attack, rather than slow it down.”

A new strategy that puts “constant pressure on the enemy for the next few days, disrupting missile and drone launch schedules and imposing daily costs 24 hours a day,” says Caine.

New risks

This change in strategy also implies new risks that, until now, were not being assumed.

Now the US military faces mobile air defenses and other types of weapons that only reduce its ability to react.

Even more disturbing are the systems of electro-optical and infrared missiles that prevent United States fighter planes from being aware that they are being attacked.

And, the airplanes F-22 y F-35 They do not have missile approach warning systems.

Therefore, underestimating Iran’s ability to attack would be something that would put the US mission at risk.

For example, Iran-backed Houthi systems in Yemen have negatively affected the fighters of the Arab states of the Gulf and have tested the most sophisticated American fighters.

Danger to the east

Aircraft will be at particularly serious risk in eastern Iran. A territory that has barely been attacked in the conflict.

As the conflict progresses, they will have to optimize static air defenses so that US and Iranian aircraft have a safety margin to operate on the ground.

In addition, this territory makes it difficult to search and rescue crews that may be shot down in the conflict.

Airspace closure

However, the announcement of the closure of the airspace of Iran can stir up, even more if possible, the conflict in Near East.

Currently, according to the information provided by the aforementioned website, no aircraft crosses Tehran. That military implications could i have this act?

As the conflict in Iranwith repercussions throughout the world and especially in the Middle East, several air zones in the region have been closed.

The closure of Iranian airspace could lead to The United States and Israel carried out massive air raids. In fact, Tel Aviv used up to 80 fighter jets to attack infrastructure and bunkers in Tehran. And by eliminating civilian traffic, large-scale attacks would be facilitated.

Also, this could mean that they expect enemy air strikes. In the current conflict, Iran has launched missiles and drones against US bases and regional targets in response to the initial attacks.

The “hard blow”

The president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkianannounced this Saturday the suspension of bombings against neighboring countries, but clarified that it reserves the right to counterattack.

Donald Trump’s reply has not been long in coming. In the early morning of Washingtonthe president has said that “Iran will receive a hard blow today.”

In the face of growing threats, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchiissued a strong warning to the Trump Administration: “If you seek to escalate the conflict, that is what you are going to get.”

“Its total destruction and certain death, as well as areas and groups of people that until now had not been considered as aim“, the American president stated on his social network.

Trump’s post on Truth Social.

“It is the first time in thousands of years that Iran has lost to neighboring countries,” he added. Trump before ensuring that all of them have thanked him for organizing the campaign.

The president has alluded to the forgiveness that Iran has asked for from its neighbors and has accused the country of becoming a “the loser of the Middle East”when before he was “the bully.”

“To the grave”

In his statement this Saturday, the Iranian president went as far as to apologize to regional neighbors and insisted that his country does not harbor any kind of animosity towards them.

Likewise, Pezeshkian has stated that the demand for Donald Trump of “an unconditional surrender of the Islamic Republic is a dream they will take to their graves.”