Live Conflict Israel-Palestine War|Regional Escalations

[Afif]

Let's say, hypothetically, that all of USA's Air Force Base access in Iraq, Kuwait, etc, were put out of commission and that the Saudis wanted to stay out of the war and didn't want USA launching strikes from their territory. I'll even got as far as suggesting that Turkey said the same thing make Incirlik a "no go" as well.

USA would still have the following options (just to mame a few) to launch hundreds of air sorties each day in support of Israeli air force and ground forces...

USS Dwight D Eisenhower
80 F-18F Super Hornets

USS George Washington
60 F-18F Super Hornets
20 F-35B Lightning II

USS Abraham Lincoln
60 F-18F Super Hornets
20 F-35B Lightning II

USS Wasp
20 F-35 Lightning II

Israeli Air Force Bases (Israel)
Aviano Air Force Base (Italy)
Akrotiri Air Force Base (Cypress)
NSA Souda Bay (Greece)
NSA Port Lyautney (Morocco)

Not to mention, USA has BY FAR the best air-to-air refueling capabilities in the world and could launch plenty of long range strike missions from as far away as Europe. They have more than 500 refueling aircraft that can extend the range of fighter / bombers by KMs of miles. They also have dozens of B-52s and B-1s and B-2s, with nearly unlimited range, that could be brought into theater from around the world.

USA could ABSOLUTELY keep hundreds of strike aircraft and long range bombers in the fight for an extended period of time (weeks at least) without the use of airfields in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Bahrain, etc... If some of those countries decide to allow USA use of their airfields because they want to see Iran hurt in the war, then it's not even close. USA would have all the airfields it would need to bring hundreds of quality combat aircraft into theater from around the world.

As always, Your numbers are inflated. US carrier wing consists of 44 fighters. Not 80, for good reason. Italy and Morocco is too far away and has no relevance for fighter ops. Bombers cam be flown from anywhere but those are stand-off. Keeping tankers over Syria and Lebanon is gonna be risky and require expanding the war to both countries.

And if we factor Israel in, then some of their air bases will also be crippled by Hezbollah. They have too many missiles and rockets.

 

[Relic]

As always, Your numbers are inflated. US carrier wing consists of 44 fighters. Not 80, for good reason. Italy and Morocco is too far away and has no relevance for fighter ops. Bombers cam be flown from anywhere but those are stand-off. Keeping tankers over Syria and Lebanon is gonna be risky and require expanding the war to both countries.

U.S. CVNs actually have the capacity to carry up to 130'ish F-18 Super Bugs simultaneously. They can keep their standard air wing in the fight, but they can absolutely be used as recovery platforms for naval strike aircraft that are launched from elsewhere. You could easily see a scenario in which F-18s and F-35s launch from Southern Europe, refuel, carry out their missions and recover on U.S. Carriers. They could then refuel, and head back to their respective bases in southern Europe to refit and rearm, before carrying out their missions again. I used the number "80" as an idea of how many aircraft that I think could operate off of each carrier in the manner I described above. I chose a number that is a little less than double a standard air wing, as a modern CVN has no problem physically recovering significantly more aircraft than are found in its conventional air wing.

Aviano absolutely is not too far away... You can absolutely refuel strike aircraft over Israel / the Mediterranean and have them launch hundreds of JASSMs / JASSM-ER into Iran (Syrian air space would not be respected), as well as virtually unlimited PGMs and other munitions on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Again, the idea would not be to try to destroy Iran. That's silly. The idea would be to devastate Lebanon (Hezbollah) from the air along with the IAF, while Israeli troops attacked north on the ground, while doing meaningful damage to Iran's coastal infrastructure in both the north and the south, in response to their direct strikes on Israel.

 

[Bogeyman]

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[Knowledgeseeker]

USA would still have the following options (just to mame a few) to launch hundreds of air sorties each day in support of Israeli air force and ground forces...
Israeli Air Force Bases (Israel)
Aviano Air Force Base (Italy)
Akrotiri Air Force Base (Cypress)
NSA Souda Bay (Greece)
NSA Port Lyautney (Morocco)

Morocco do not host any foreign force on its territory, and have rejected the presence of a couple of world powers in the past.( Both naval ports, aswell as air bases).

The name you mentioned was a name that present when Morocco was a protecrate. The name of the airbase is Kenitra airbase.