{"id":20287,"date":"2021-10-22T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20287"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:48:57","slug":"israels-1-5bn-shopping-list-for-a-potential-offensive-on-irans-nuclear-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/israels-1-5bn-shopping-list-for-a-potential-offensive-on-irans-nuclear-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s $1.5bn shopping list for a potential offensive on Iran\u2019s nuclear program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Debkafiles – October 21,2021<\/p>\n

Israel is said to have earmarked some 5 billion shekels ($1.5bn) towards the IDF\u2019s price tag for a potential strike against Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Military sources report that this sum would be spent on the acquisition of different types of aircraft, intelligence gathering, drones and dedicated armaments for enabling attacks on Iran\u2019s fortified underground facilities.<\/p>\n

IN other words, Israel is short at present of a full set of tools for going past a limited operation and conducting a comprehensive offensive for disabling Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program, say DEBKAfile\u2019s military sources.<\/p>\n

This shortfall is prominent in five main areas:<\/p>\n

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    1. Assuming that a single raid would not finish the job, to conduct multiple waves, the Israeli Air Force would require to supplement its current force with dozens of additional F-35 and F-15 aircraft. This would also call for the recruitment of more flight crews.<\/li>\n
    2. Once the Israeli offensive is launched, Tehran may be counted on to activate allies from four fronts closer to Israel\u2019s borders: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. To forestall this potential proxy assault, the IAF has reorganized its assets by moving F-16 short range aircraft to the Ramat David base in the north. However, these aircraft are also in short supply and would have to be substantially augmented.<\/li>\n
    3. An urgent request has been put in for the advanced Boeing-built KC-46 tankers (see photo) to refuel aircraft in flight across the 2,000km distance to Iran and back to base. The Re\u2019em Boeing 707 in-flight fuel craft used hitherto are 60 years old and not up to the new task.
      \nInterim landings in Saudi Arabia or a US Gulf airbase would solve the refueling problem. But this option has to be counted out in light of the contacts the Saudis and Emiratis are developing with Iran. Washington has indeed promised Israel eight advanced in-flight refueling tankers, but it will take years before they are available.<\/li>\n
    4. Israel is also asking for American MOAB GBU-43 bunker busters, that were designed specifically for targeting Iran\u2019s fortified underground nuclear sites and tested once in the Afghanistan war. Israel has a small number of bunker busters. According to Western military observers, they were used against the Hamas\u2019 underground \u201cMetro\u201d network last May in a mission dubbed \u201cLightning Bolt.\u201d This was to have been a rehearsal for raids on Iran\u2019s underground nuclear facilities. It turned out, however, that the Hamas bunker system had to be bombed multiple times to be effective and even then, sections of the Metro remained.<\/li>\n
    5. In a war situation, Israel\u2019s satellite coverage could not be stretched to cover Iran\u2019s vastness (1.650 sq.km) and the additional areas commanded by its four main allies. American satellites would be called on for backup. Consent would have to be authorized by President Joe Biden as US commander on chief.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Debkafiles – October 21,2021 Israel is said to have earmarked some 5 billion shekels ($1.5bn) towards the IDF\u2019s price tag for a potential strike against Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Military sources report that this sum would be spent on the acquisition of different types of aircraft, intelligence gathering, drones and dedicated armaments for enabling attacks on … Continue reading Israel\u2019s $1.5bn shopping list for a potential offensive on Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1355,279,55,48,8],"class_list":["post-20287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5hd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20289,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions\/20289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}