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Logistics of an Israeli Strike on Iran
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Hans Rühle was one of the toughest and most perspicacious analysts in those heady days [of the Cold War]. Today he evaluates Israel's capacity to knock out Iran's nuclear program in an essay in the German conservative daily Die Welt. It is worth reading (for non-German speakers, there's Google Translate).

Rühle is highly confident that Israel could knock out Iran's nuclear program for a decade or more with about 25 of its 87 F-15 fighter-bombers and a smaller number of its F-16s. Each of the F-15s would carry two of the GBU-28 bunker busters, with the F-16s armed with smaller bombs. 

Most importantly, Rühle believes that it would take Iran a decade to restore its capabilities -- with the exception of Isfahan -- unless special forces could inflict more damage from the ground than was possible from the air. There are risks, of course: the Russians might have secretly given Iran more advanced surface-to-air missiles; refueling might be interdicted along a route that overflies potentially hostile countries; and Iran's proxies (Syria, Hizbollah, Hamas) might retaliate. Nonetheless, he concludes that Israel could lastingly disrupt Iran's nuclear program.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-03-02
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