AiTellyWhat is Phase Two of Operation Epic Fury? Seven days of sustained combat. The skies over Iran are finally quiet—but don’t let the silence fool you. Although The US has achieved near-total air superiority, but the war is just entering its most dangerous stage. Phase One was about clearing the skies. While Phase Two It’s about Targeting Iran’s strategic ballistic missiles underground. These are high-tech labyrinths bored deep into solid mountain rock, shielded by hundreds of feet of earth and reinforced concrete. If you drop a standard bomb here? It won’t even leave a scratch. But here is the problem: Iran is still not out of the fight. If the US owns the sky, why not just send in standard fighters? Because while Iran’s main network is shattered, isolated surface-to-air batteries—like the S-300—are still hiding in the shadows. For an F-15E Strike Eagle—the legendary ‘bomb truck’ of the Air Force—one lucky radar lock from a rogue missile is a death sentence. And in a high-stakes conflict, losing a crew and a multi-million-dollar jet to a surviving battery is a risk the Pentagon simply won’t take.
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