A squadron of U.S. Air Force F-22 stealth fighters is deploying to the Middle East in response to Iran’s potential retaliation for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week. The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has significantly bolstered U.S. forces in the region.
It has been reported that over the weekend, he deployed additional F-22s alongside the existing combat aircraft. Furthermore, the Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, along with its wing of F/A-18EF Superhornet fighters and EA-18 Growler electronic warfare planes, has been added to the lineup.
In the event of another attack by Iran using hundreds of missiles and drones, the F-22 will lead U.S. forces in establishing a defensive shield across the region. The F-22 is the most advanced fighter in the world, and no adversary can match its capabilities.
The F-22 has supersonic speed even without using the afterburner, and its huge radar allows it to detect, track, and eliminate even the smallest targets. Additionally, the F-22 is so stealthy that it is hard to detect on radar. In fact, it would appear no larger than a bumblebee to Iran’s air defenses.
The F-22s are armed with air-to-air missiles and ground attack weapons. In addition, F-22 Raptor pilots effectively use long-range sensors to detect enemy activity. Raptor pilots fulfill a vital role as quarterbacks and long-range snipers.
The F-22s have previously been deployed to the Middle East and carried out air-to-ground strikes in Syria in 2014 and 2018. They have also patrolled with allies over eastern Syrian airspace in the fight against ISIS.
Russian and Syrian pilots over the battle zone were often unaware of the presence of the F-22s flying near them, sometimes even while flying at 50,000 feet or higher.
The Air Force has 183 F-22s stationed in Alaska and Hawaii to defend against Chinese and Russian bomber flights. The largest base is at Langley AFB, Virginia.
One Raptor was called to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon in February 2023. Airlines are canceling flights to Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon due to increasing tension in the Middle East.
In other news, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over an event marking the movement of new nuclear-capable ballistic missile launchers to frontline units. State media reported this on Monday, marking the latest round of escalating tensions along the inter-Korean border.
The official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim presided over a “ceremony for the transfer of 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers” on Sunday in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
The KN-23 missile, believed to be used by Russia in its war against Ukraine, is supplied by North Korea as part of a growing economic and military relationship between the two isolated regimes, according to Washington and Seoul.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry warned that the U.S. and its allies would bear responsibility for the “catastrophic consequences” of their “provocative acts” in the region. Pyongyang stated readiness to take necessary measures to protect its sovereignty, national security, and regional peace.
South Korea had fired warning shots at least three times since May when North Korean military personnel crossed the demarcation line, the midpoint of the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries.
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
James 1:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 1:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelations 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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