Israel to Iran: Smile and Wave

In the coming Israel-Iran war we don't know what we don't know and we are intrigued by what we don't know about what the Israelis can do.

Well, now we know this about what the Israelis can do:

According to the newspaper’s investigation, “the IAF F-35 “Adir” planes penetrated Iran’s airspace, circled high above Tehran, Karajrak, Isfahan, Shiraz and Bandar Abbas – and photographed Iran’s air defense system.”

One of the sources reported that Iran’s air defense system, including its Russian radar, did not detect the entry and exit of the fighter planes, and that Ismaili hid this information from the supreme leader to cover his service failure. However Iranian intelligence discovered that the Israeli fighter jets had carried out this sortie as a test of the possibility of an undetected attack on Iranian outposts and bases, during which they photographed those sensitive bases, evading the Russian S-300 missile system’s radar.

So much for the vaunted Soviet, erm, Russian S-300.*

Hey, remember all those reports about problems with the F-35? Yeah me neither.*

Do note that we've sold the Israelis lots of fancy high-tech bunker buster bombs, and I mean a lot of 'em.

Meanwhile the Chinese are thinking, 'The F-35 can do that?'

*Or the Jew is clever.

**Never worried about the F-35. You see, back in the Cold War the comsymps at 60 Minutes would run dramatic stories about how US equipment didn't work. This included, and younger reader(s) will laugh, the Apache, the Bradley, night vision gear....