The US is sending a new group of F-35s to the Middle East, though exactly why is subject to speculation, as Centcom’s report was just a list of things the costly plane could conceivably do.
Things like close air support are capabilities, but not strengths, and the US has other planes better suited to that role. This is fueling speculation that the move is aimed at Iran.
There seems no particular reason to be after Iran just now, but US hostility toward Iran comes and goes like the seasons, so it is as good an explanation as any.
It may also be that the US is at a loss for what to do with these wildly expensive planes, and is just shuffling them into active theaters so they don’t look idle.
Where would they be stationed, Qatar? I sure hope they leave Iraq out of this mess.
A fight w/Iran will be very messy. Iran has been planning this for decades and doesn’t expect to have air superiority. My guess, they plan to strike U.S. air bases w/missiles and try to destroy what they can on the ground.
Sending F-35s to a potential “hot spot” makes as much sense as sending “tricked out” Cadilac limousines into a tank battle.
“but US hostility toward Iran comes and goes like the seasons”
So we’ve had one continuous 40 year season?
wars,,Ya,,like when we started it all for oil by over throwing their elected Gov. in 1953!!!
Oh it started before that the US invaded Iran as a Neutral country in WWII
I only started from ’79. We weren’t hostile while our puppet ruled. But yeah.
The problem here is that Trump will be doing it in an attempt to bolster HIS reelection.
With the USA broke and falling apart, these F-heads in DC, the GHOULS,,are still playing war games??? WTF!!
Channelling money to the war corporations goes on no matter what.
I am certain some will be damaged in shipping, and then have to be replaced.
When two or three planes are down for weeks on end, spare parts (planes) are readily available.
Maybe they are going to do circles over the desert. Remember when they dropped the MOAB in the desert? This sh#t has a shelf life ya know.
No, the F35s are the target…! Iran already has the radar to detect and shoot down stealth planes…So any F-35 presence is only for power showdown…!
Perhaps a distraction to take attention away from two books on Trump that are about to come out?