Iran and the US
They could do potentially hundreds of sorties a day because they’ll have several hundred aircraft across the Middle East,” said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute..."This is still nowhere near the level of firepower that we had for the First Gulf War or the invasion of Iraq, nowhere near in terms of volume,” Savill said...“People shouldn’t assume that THAAD, Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 are an impenetrable shield,” said Savill, referring to American and Israeli air defences. “It all comes back to, what is the US trying to achieve? Does it believe it’s delivering a sharp blow to compel the regime to accede to its demands elsewhere? Or does it think the regime is brittle enough that there is a regime-change opportunity here? If it is a regime-change operation, that increases the prospects of the Iranians just deciding to fire everything.”
