Recently, just during the Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to Iran to find a “new possibility for peace” in the Middle East, the Americans completely abandoned the position of “allies” and sent a large number of fighters and advanced weapons to the Middle East.
Both the Ticonderoga cruiser and the Burke-class destroyer escorting Lincoln carrier carry more than a hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles. In addition, there are four B-52H stratospheric strategic bombers in the Persian Gulf.
The problem is, as we all know, the Iranian air force is very weak. Once the war occurs, the Persians can resist for a few hours with only two MiG-29 squadrons and a group of outdated old planes. Why are Americans so painstaking? Based on incomplete statistics, there are at least 300 US fighters currently stationed in the Gulf.
No one will doubt that the Iranian air force would be completely destroyed in the first few hours of the war. The Pentagon estimates that with the strong bombing capacity of the B-52H, Tehran will be blown back to the “Stone Age”.
This is why there is a reason for Iran to buy Russian S-400 at this moment. However, just recently, this statement was denied by both Russia and Iran. Russia said that Iran did not raise the request, and Iran also believes that this is completely a “rumor” that is dominated by some big country. Moreover, they have already prepared a “secret weapon” and are fully capable of the upcoming war.
Some military expert believes that the “new weapon” that Iran has shown not only won a valuable breathing time for itself, but also has the potential to prevent the potential war.
Under the US military’s constant “tightening”, on June 9, Iran finally showed its latest anti-missile platform Khordad15 anti-aircraft missile.
Iranian Defense Minister Khatami announced that the Khordad15 ground-to-air missile can be shot down unmanned or ordinary manned fighters within 120 kilometers. At the same time, the system is also designed with anti-stealth capabilities. Stealth fighters such as F-35A are also not spared within 45 kilometers. The Khordad15 can also track up to 6 targets at the same time.
The Pentagon is very curious how Iran could suddenly have such a complicated “high-tech weapon”, and this unique air defense system even has the performance of not being weaker than the Patriot missile.
Obviously, Khordad15 has indeed won the initiative of the war for Iran and will return the “power” of igniting the fuse of war to its own hands.
On June 13, the news that two supertankers in the Middle East were bombed has been confusing. According to the latest news, one of the 160,000-tonne Norwegian tankers has been confirmed to be sunk, and another Japanese 50,000-ton “Courage” tanker has laid a huge “shadow” for Japanese prime minister to visit Iran. This major accident, or unexpected variables, has rekindled the global worries about triggering a “US-Iraq war.”
As we all know, the accident area – the Gulf region including Hormoz Strait is a truly “super route” in the world. More than 20% of the world’s oil transportation is firmly controlled within this route. Once the United States and Iraq “cross over the red line”, the consequences will be far more than just two countries being “involved into the war”.
However, hopefully the Khordad15 air defense and anti-missile system displayed by Iran will be “real” and can play the same role as the Russian S-400, so that the US military would stop at the critical moment and think about it.
