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.”

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

Both Iran and the rest of the allied countries 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.

Now, in the conflict, the United States and Israel have changed their strategy to try to precisely gain an advantage and control the airspace.

You could say that changing the tactic from ranged attacks to direct attacks saves costs by avoiding the use of long-range ammunitionbut this type of attack allows the frequency and breadth of the air campaign to be increased, which is essential.

However, Iran has land-based mobile air defenses that are very easy to hide and surprise the enemy.

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.