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The fact that there is an exclusion zone raises some questions tho:
For one, how many booster rockets could you have bought to deliver the same strike weapon, for the price of the F-35? And then, if/when Iran shoots back, they can launch from a kickstand in Syria or Iraq or Lebanon. The logistics train is a box-truck, vs a refueling aircr…
The fact that there is an exclusion zone raises some questions tho:
For one, how many booster rockets could you have bought to deliver the same strike weapon, for the price of the F-35? And then, if/when Iran shoots back, they can launch from a kickstand in Syria or Iraq or Lebanon. The logistics train is a box-truck, vs a refueling aircraft and airports.
Defense in this world consists of some combination of anti-missile defense and deterrence. The latter barely exists thanks to the Israeli-US combination policy, which can be summarized of attack no matter how the counterparty responds.