Are hundreds of radars in the Middle East and Iran really “blind” to Israeli fighter jets? The truth may not be that simple.
Israel’s long-planned retaliation finally took place on October 26, with three strikes, including on the territory of Iran, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. After the attack, Israel declared a “complete victory”. The US confirmed that Israel had carried out self-defense actions with good results.
As for Iran, they also announced that they had won, “embarrassing their opponents”.
Although Israel deployed more than 100 fighter jets and launched a large number of missiles, the result seemed to give everyone a feeling of “family joy”. There were no losers in this Israeli retaliation, only a few unlucky Iranian soldiers were killed.
There are indeed many puzzling and mysterious things behind Israel’s latest raid on Iranian territory. US media said that Tel Aviv had contacted Tehran in advance while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied it.
Meanwhile, local Israeli television reported that Tel Aviv had avoided attacking Tehran’s oil and gas facilities due to pressure from Washington. But Netanyahu said that Israel chose to attack enemy targets based on national interests, not on US orders.
So are there too many question marks to be raised about this attack?
Why do all parties choose to “keep silent”?
The distance between the two countries is more than 1,800km, so after completing their mission and returning, the Israeli Air Force fighter jets had to fly 3,600km continuously, using in-flight refueling. However, the entire journey was like flying through a “deserted land”.
Israel has deployed several F-35 stealth fighters. This fifth-generation fighter, fully fueled and unarmed, has a maximum range of 2,500km.
During the recent raid, Israel conducted at least one aerial refueling, and the “flying fuel tank” used was a KC-46A Pegasus, both provided by the US.
Earlier on October 7, Washington dispatched four of these aircraft from US territory to Israel. It is known that to carry out the airstrike, Israel and the US prepared 12 tanker aircraft and 600 tons of fuel.
Israeli F-35 stealth fighters, in their first long-range strike mission using mid-air refueling to bomb Iranian territory, flew over most of the Middle East without any incidents and returned safely after completing the mission.
Notably, among the more than 100 Israeli aircraft, many are not stealthy. Currently, air defense systems in the Middle East may not be able to detect 5th-generation aircraft, but why were other conventional fighters participating in the campaign also not detected?
The F-15I and F-16I fighter jets – the two main types of fighter jets in this Israeli air raid campaign – are both old-generation fighter jets, completely lacking stealth features, but they are also not detected by radar or observation means of Middle Eastern countries and Iran.
Tel Aviv claims that through this raid, the world has seen their capabilities. It is true that Israel’s bombing campaign was carried out in three waves and was very spectacular, but it met no resistance, and no fighter jets were shot down.
Israel has attacked power plants, drone factories, missile research and development bases, radar stations, and many other important targets in Iran.
In this campaign, in addition to the strength of the Israeli Air Force and the comprehensive support of the US military being demonstrated, there is another thing that cannot be ignored, which is that Iran did not use all its strength to intercept, while Jordan, Iraq and Syria chose to remain silent.
Where are the radars of Syria, Iraq, and Iran?
Are hundreds of radars in the Middle East really “blind?” The truth may not be so simple. Israeli fighter jets fly in groups and, even with stealth measures and electronic jamming, they can still be detected by radars in Iran and other countries in the Middle East.
However, it can be seen from the information obtained so far that in the three bombing raids, Israeli fighter jets flew over uninhabited land and were completely unintercepted. This shows that not all the hundreds of radars in the Middle East were “asleep”, but that they may have detected them but remained silent.
Iran had previously launched two missile and drone attacks on Israel, but Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries also participated in the interception. However, this time all their radars were silent. So is this a coincidence? Obviously things are not that simple.
Intercepting Iranian missiles is something that Middle Eastern countries must do under pressure believed to be from the US. On the contrary, in Israel’s actions, these Middle Eastern countries can only remain neutral.
But why were hundreds of radars in Iran unable to detect anything and no Israeli fighter jets detected or tracked? This is truly a mystery.
The case of Iran’s interception is also relatively puzzling, they are said to have intercepted some missiles but did not cause any damage to Israeli fighter jets.
Although the enemy aircraft mainly attacked outside Iran’s defense zone, they still had the ability to counterattack, which suggests that Tehran may not want to make things worse.
Why did Israeli missiles explode in the air?
In the recent attack, some Israeli missiles were intercepted and exploded in the air, which was something the world did not expect.
Israeli fighter jets penetrated Iran’s “eye of the gods” very well and basically encountered little resistance. However, the missiles launched by Israel towards the target were not so impressive, because many were said to be intercepted by Iran and exploded in the air.
The Israeli military said it only attacked Iranian military targets. Neither Iran’s oil facilities nor its nuclear facilities, which the world is most concerned about, were attacked.
Iran suffered essentially no major losses and intercepted several Israeli missiles in mid-air. Loud explosions were heard from the capital Tehran, largely due to Iranian missiles intercepting Israeli missiles.
This attack tells us that the situation in the Middle East is generally under control, but it is becoming more and more unpredictable. Israel seems to want to expand the conflict, even wanting to drag the US into it, but it is clear that Washington is not ready.
At the very least, the US does not agree with Israel expanding the conflict at the present time, and it is clear that Iran is not ready to use force either.
Iran’s strategy is very clear, that is, it will not directly fight Israel, nor will it participate in a world war, but only a proxy war.
