Originally Posted by
tartare
This will likely get very ugly indeed.
You'd have to think that the Mullahs (those who are left) would order everything ballistic to be unleashed on Israel.
Presumably that's what the ongoing strikes are targeting.
What would be the sequence?
Decapitate the leadership as you strike retaliatory sites, then hit the nuclear targets?
For a comparatively small air force - wonder how the IAF has done it - likely extensive use of that unknown drone they used in the last strikes.
It was all done pretty much simultaneously - I was watching on X from the moment it kicked off - reports were coming in of the first wave attacks on all of residential areas, multiple nuclear sites and ICBM sites with local videos.
Second wave has been underway for a while now - including attacks on oil refineries.
Remember that the IAF has a much bigger fighter force than the RAF - it has an estimated 45 x F-35I + 66 x F-15I/A/C + 174 F-16I/C in service at present with outstanding orders for 30 more F-35I and 25 x F-15IA (Israeli specific F-15EX).