Tuesday, December 08, 2009

A Mullah Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Moment

Recently, Iran ran exercises to demonstrate their air defense prowess should America or Israel decide to attack their "peaceful nuclear programs."

I didn't blog on it since Iranian maneuvers are largely of the "scream and leap" variety designed to convince locals and gullible foreigners that the Persian Empire is mean and lean.

Sadly for Iran, the exercises simply demonstrated that they suck:

The Iranian exercise had air and air-defense units go through the motions of dealing with a hostile air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

The Iranian generals who organized the exercise were surprised at how uncoordinated and ill prepared their forces were for such an attack. Communications were spotty (due to equipment failures and poor training), and weapons (aircraft and missile systems) did not perform as expected.

Well then. That could be inconvenient for the Iranian nutjobs since Israel could strike Iran, even if it could not do the job as good as we can.

And any indication that Iran is less capable of resisting gives the Israelis a little more margin of error in carrying out the strike analysis.