American tactical success, Israel's F35 paralyzed the air defense network and seized air superiority, Iran is about to give up.

Iran launched a large number of missiles at Israel, causing significant damage. However, in terms of air defense capability, Iran is currently at a clear disadvantage and cannot stop Israel's airstrikes.

Israel, leveraging its air superiority, especially the use of F-35 stealth fighters, has actually gained control of the airspace over western Iran. This is the famous American王牌tactic known as "penetration air superiority".

The core of America's "penetration air superiority" tactic lies in using generational technological advantages (such as stealth) to break through the enemy's tight air defense system. Although there are controversies regarding the speed, maneuverability, and engine reliability of the F-35, its excellent stealth performance is the key winning factor.

The air defense systems and radars deployed in Iran's strategic depth and well-protected positions are difficult to effectively detect against the F-35's stealth capabilities. This allows Israel's F-35 to avoid multiple layers of defenses and directly strike and paralyze key nodes in Iran's air defense network.

The US first used the penetration air superiority tactic in the Gulf War and Kosovo War, where they used F-117 stealth aircraft for the initial wave of attacks, achieving great success.

After the F-35 successfully destroyed Iran's air defense systems, subsequent Israeli aircraft were able to carry out ground strike missions relatively freely. The targets included senior officials of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, refineries, air defense sites, airports, nuclear facilities, etc.

The ability of the F-35 to precisely destroy air defense systems also reflects the high level of intelligence information Israel has on Iran. Iran's western air defense system is basically ineffective, giving Israeli aircraft high operational freedom in this area, while Iran temporarily lacks effective countermeasures.

This highlights the decisive role of air power in modern warfare and the strategic value of fifth-generation stealth fighters. If not for the F-35 destroying Iran's radar nodes first, Israel's subsequent large-scale night-time air raid involving 70 aircraft would face enormous difficulties. In addition, Israel also used the airspace near Iran's border in northern Iraq to launch air-to-surface missiles, further reducing the risk of its own aircraft being attacked.

It should be emphasized that "air force victory" cannot be simply equated with "fighter victory". The complexity of war far exceeds what can be summarized by the performance comparison of a single weapon platform (such as fighter jets). Advanced fighter jets are certainly important, but they are one of the core nodes in the entire air force combat system (including early warning command, intelligence reconnaissance, electronic warfare, logistics support, etc.).

In systematic operations, the advantage of a single weapon can easily be offset. For example, theoretically, J-10C supported by KJ-500 early warning aircraft has the ability to counteract F-35.

However, for Iran, its main air force still consists of old F-14 fighters, which not only find it difficult to compete with Israel in single aircraft performance, but also lack the complete combat system to support advanced aircraft. How could they deal with Israel's airstrikes?

Therefore, the current situation presents an attrition pattern: Iran's missile attacks pose a substantive threat to Israel and have already begun to target Israel's economic targets (such as ports and refineries); while Israel's airstrikes, Iran currently lacks effective means to defend against. Both sides are under pressure, and the final result will depend on which side demonstrates greater resilience in bearing losses and maintaining combat capability.

But now it is obvious that Iran can no longer hold on and wants to surrender!

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