{"id":87955,"date":"2026-04-28T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/87955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:44:50","slug":"5-ways-the-iran-war-shows-nato-is-not-ready-to-fight-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/87955\/","title":{"rendered":"5 ways the Iran war shows NATO is not ready to fight Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

That creates an \u201curgent requirement for more affordable air-to-air interceptors,\u201d he added, arguing NATO should focus on cheaper alternatives to the Patriot like the AGR-20 laser-guided missile \u2014 and build out passive defenses like hardened concrete aircraft shelters.<\/p>\n

The alliance’s munitions shortages will now feature heavily at July’s summit of NATO leaders, according to one person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

2. Air inferiority<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s ability to continue pummeling neighboring Gulf states with over 5,000 missile and drone attacks<\/a> despite the U.S. aerial campaign shows the \u201cclear limits to the expectation that you can bomb a country into submission\u201d with conventional aircraft, said Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.<\/p>\n

\"\"The HMS Dragon is pictured in Portsmouth, England on March 4, 2026. | Peter Nicholls\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

In response, NATO must rethink air dominance and look for creative solutions to deter Russia, like turbocharging investment in long-range precision strike weapons capable of targeting Moscow\u2019s drone production and military sites deep inside the country, said Bronk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get air superiority over a contested area, then even Europe on its own could devastate Russian forces in the field,\u201d he said, suggesting bolstering purchases of American-made AGM-88G missiles, with a range of up to 300 kilometers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Iran war has already prompted new discussions within NATO on the need for greater deep strike capabilities, said the two alliance diplomats, as talks on the organization\u2019s next four-year defense planning cycle kick off this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That creates an \u201curgent requirement for more affordable air-to-air interceptors,\u201d he added, arguing NATO should focus on cheaper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[387,10859,31236,15489,2669,177,648,2242,38,687,893,34,441,3794,2245,49,179,712,690,11861,3897,6286,2040,271,2677,55,50,443,2042,31237,56,691,51,1976,3869,36,226,5533,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-87955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-ammunition","10":"tag-anders-fogh-rasmussen","11":"tag-borders","12":"tag-buildings","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-drones","18":"tag-investment","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-maritime","21":"tag-mark-carney","22":"tag-mark-rutte","23":"tag-middle-east","24":"tag-military","25":"tag-missiles","26":"tag-missions","27":"tag-munitions","28":"tag-parliament","29":"tag-poland","30":"tag-ports","31":"tag-qatar","32":"tag-research","33":"tag-russia","34":"tag-saudi-arabia","35":"tag-security","36":"tag-services","37":"tag-submarines","38":"tag-ukraine","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-vladimir-putin","42":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","43":"tag-war","44":"tag-war-in-iran","45":"tag-water","46":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}