In retaliation for Israel's high-profile bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria with F-35 stealth fighter jets, Iran has previously used more than 100 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and a large number of suicide drones to launch strikes against targets in Israel. Israel claims that the strike does not pose much of a threat to Israel, as Israeli air defense forces have intercepted more than 99% of the time Iran's incoming missiles and drones, but judging from Israel's current statement, Israel has previously pointed out that it will not retaliate against Iran, and Israel also wants to avoid the outbreak of a war, but on April 19, Israel dispatched high-profile warplanes and used missiles to bomb a number of military bases in Iran, including the Iranian Air Force's Isfahan Air Base.
The gap between Israel and Iran in the strength of the air force is very huge, in Israel continues to show off F-35 stealth fighters, and even when the number of sorties of these fifth-generation aircraft can reach more than 40 sorties on the same day, Iran's most powerful fighter is only the old F-14 Tomcat fighter, in addition, the Iranian Air Force has a very large number of F-4 fighters and MiG-29 fighters, for the Iranian Air Force is simply unable to compete with Israel, so in the past period of strike operations, Iran is also very clear, to make use of its strengths and avoid weaknesses to carry out operations。
The Iranian Air Force's American-made fighter jets are a legacy of Iran's Pahlavi era, and these American-made fighter jets are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Taking the F-14 fighter jet as an example, it is rumored that these F-14 fighter jets rely on a large number of smuggled parts to complete the daily maintenance process, but for now, Iran is equipped with multiple types of fighters, in fact, few countries in the world have the same model. With Israel launching a bombing of Iran, and at the same time, Iran's air defense weapons cannot be intercepted at all, the war research institute believes that South Korea's opportunity is coming, regardless of whether Iran has the loss of fighters, more Iranian fighters will carry out high-intensity operations, which is a big test for many old aircraft, including the test of F-4 fighters, and if you want to get more F-4 fighter parts, there is certainly no hope from the United States, but South Korea can smuggle a large number of aircraft parts to Iran.
Since Iran relies on a large number of smuggled parts during the daily maintenance of the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, such smuggled parts will not be intercepted too much by the United States. South Korean Air Force has a batch of F-4 fighter jets are in a state of imminent retirement, on April 18, F-4 fighter jets have completed the last live-fire exercise, South Korean Air Force plans to hold a retirement ceremony for F-4 fighters on April 27, and completely grounded F-4 fighters in June this year, and after the retirement of these F-4 fighters, a large number of inventory parts are useless, South Korea can also take this opportunity to smuggle to Iran, in this way to get more economic benefits for South Korea.
For South Korea, if the entire F-4 fighter is provided to Iran, the target is too big, but a lot of the on-board equipment equipped with the F-4 fighter can be secretly provided to Iran in the form of parts. The United States has also been smuggling parts of F-14 Tomcat fighter jets to Iran for a long time, so there is no need for South Korea to worry that the United States will interfere with this smuggling operation, because the United States itself has already done so. Text/Iris