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Originally Posted by Ophir
They have no training in close air support at all? Amazing. I would've though that the Iran-Iraq war did taught them a thing or two; moreover, they have a significant number of Russian fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships. Have they simply overlooked this important aspect of modern war?
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They can't afford to. CAS requires air superiority and the planes just hovering doing nothing but waiting for bellycrawlers to give them something to hit. In Afghanistan, we have entire sorties that does nothing but wait around for the ground to hit something. That is expensive in both fuel and wear and tear.
Those Russian fighter-bombers are tasked with ground attack missions, ie, the Iranians know what they want to hit before they took off. And that is usually a fixed, identifiable target.
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Originally Posted by Ophir
Mmm... Won't visua signals, such as flares, help the Iranian side?
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If they trained for such a thing and they don't. The Iranian Army does not even use the same radio frequencies as the AF.