FLASH
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Unprecedented operation with high coordination, air supply and intensive use of real-time intelligence
Hundreds of American and Israeli fighter jets constantly fly over Iran, waiting for the moment to strike their targets or neutralize the leadership in Tehran.
With Iranian air defenses now seemingly incapable of responding to US and Israeli attacks, after, according to Donald Trump, "the country's air and naval forces are gone, its leaders are gone, and its anti-aircraft technology is destroyed," the concrete ways in which joint US-Israeli action unfolds in practice are of interest.
From the beginning, coordinated American-Israeli forces had planned "unprecedented" operations to consolidate military superiority over Iran, destroy missile launchers and military factories, and take control of the adversary's airspace.
Israeli air force pilots and counterintelligence officers had never before conducted an operation of this scale, while to find a comparable case in the history of the US air force we must go back several decades.
Recently, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that once air superiority is achieved, Israel and the US will have complete freedom of action to continue the campaign launched on Saturday, February 28, with the aim of destroying Iran's missile launchers and production facilities.
"We will use precision bombs weighing 500, 1,000 and 2,000 pounds (up to about 900 kilograms), guided by GPS and lasers, of which we have an almost unlimited supply," Hegseth declared.
Division of duties
"About a hundred planes are ready to take off from Israel every six hours. Most likely, several hundred are over Iran at any given moment. It's a factory," declared an Israeli general in reserve.
The planes are refueled in the air by American tankers, enabling them to perform six-hour rotations and stay over Iran for long periods. This is particularly important for an air force that has only a few hundred aircraft, while “the pilots have to sleep,” the former officer added, according to Le Monde.
Another “factory” operates in Tel Aviv, constantly updating the military’s targets. An air control unit, made up of intelligence and air force officers, assigns pilots, sometimes within minutes, tasks to strike targets in Iran in group formation. These units constantly manage and update “target banks,” which are created largely from information collected by F-35 aircraft in flight.
The US and Israeli air forces, which have trained together for three decades and use the same equipment, have divided Iranian airspace, access corridors and tasks to be carried out. Israeli forces have taken over coverage of Tehran and the north of the country, where they have carried out numerous strikes on command centers, forcing, according to Israel and the Iranian government, the transfer of operational powers to local commanders.
They have also carried out targeted killings in the capital and struck political targets, while attacking missile depots in other parts of the country.
On the other hand, the US military has concentrated its greatest strike power in southern Iran and on naval targets. The goal is to protect the allied Gulf monarchies from short- and medium-range missiles, as well as from the Iranian navy.
The US Air Force has previously deployed F-22 stealth aircraft, capable of penetrating deep into Iranian territory, as well as B-2 bombers, equipped with deep-penetration munitions that can destroy missile launchers and hidden underground factories, targets that Israel failed to hit during the June 2025 war.
Current situation
American and Israeli aircraft look like "hawks" patrolling the skies over Tehran and other Iranian cities, waiting for the moment to strike.
The time spent in the air for each aircraft remains difficult to determine, as operational details are classified.
According to experts, non-stop flights of up to nine hours by single-seat fighter jets have been recorded in the past. This allows us to conclude that, given the large number of American air-to-air refueling tankers, pilots and aircraft can remain on the mission for many hours.
Israel has about 260 fighter jets. Many of them are two-seaters, such as the F-16 and F-15. In these aircraft, control can be exercised by both the main pilot and the co-pilot, which allows for in-flight switching and a short rest period for each.
Regarding the number of pilots, although the data is highly confidential, it is estimated that for each Israeli aircraft there are about six pilots, who, in the conditions of the intensive operations of recent days, are constantly alternating. /Adapted from Pamphlet /
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