Trump sends fighter jet squadron to ‘kick the door down’ in Iran

Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said the US had built an impressive amount of firepower, already more than most countries could assemble. He said: “Israel could nearly double what is available in the air if it joined, and it’s worth recognising that the current force will be more precise than its predecessors, with greater air superiority.” He added that, even without Israel, once the second carrier arrived, the force would be capable of executing hundreds of air sorties per day for weeks, and delivering a high rate of Tomahawk missile strikes. Mr Savill added: “It is unknown what impact this will have. It could coerce a change of policy by the regime, and strike across its missile programs. But we don’t know if it can force the regime out of power because we have no good external understanding of how brittle it is.”