Top 5 coolest air forces

Note before you criticize my choices, this list is of the coolest air forces of the world not the best!

5. Iranian Air Force (IRIAF)

The only reason I picked the Iranian Air Force is simply because the way its been made up since 1980, the Shah's air force was a match for the Soviet Air Force until after the Iranian Revolution when it was disbanded and pro Shah pilots put in jail, tortured and some even killed.

But after the Iraqi invasion started on the 22nd of September 1980 the Iranians got together and launched Operation Kaman 99, 60 F-14's defending Iran's airspace and 120 F-4's launched in to retaliate bombing the Iraqi air force and destroying about 55% of it!

300 engagements against Iraqi fighters was fought over Khark Island alone, the Iraqi Air Force failed in destroying one target over eight years at the hand of Iranian F-14's, showing them to be a deadly force regardless of the arms embargo and heavy sanctions.



Iran today are even capable of producing their own variant of the F-5 Freedom Fighter and are keeping over 20 F-14 Tomcats and over 60 F-4's in service.

4. Israeli Air Force (IAF)



While it's main task these days seems to be deploying F-16's to kill women and children and destroy UN convoys the Israeli Air Force in its day did a pretty good job, especially the ballsy Operation Opera in 1981 destroying an Iraqi nuclear reactor.

In the Lebanon War of 1982 they even managed to shoot down 100 Syrian aircraft without a single loss.

And around the same time during a training exercise an F-15 was involved in a collision with an A-6 even managed to land with only one wing!


3. United States Air Force (USAF)



The USAF is the biggest air force in the world and in some regard the best because of that, they have created many revolutionary aircraft, such as the F-14 Tomcat (named the MiG killer), the A-10 Warthog which in my case is one of the reasons tanks are becoming obsolete and they have recently invested into stealth bombers and fighters (with the F-22 Raptor), I have issues with whether or not stealth aircraft are proven.

That being said the US Air Force is a mighty adversary for anyone to have!

2. Russian Air Force



In the early 1980's the Soviets designed the Su-27 Flanker, basically integrating the F-14 and F-15 designs into one, it was big and ready to kick ass, since the Soviet Union fell the Russian air force the Russian Air Force has made some technology demonstrators and haven't really made anything in bulk relying more on their MiG-29's and Su-27's as their main frontline fighters.



But when they make make something new count on it being awesome.

1. French Air Force (ALA)



Yes the French Air Force is what I picked as the coolest air force, its far from the best air force in the world but in my books it surely is the coolest, apart from a large amount of sleek Mirages and the new Rafales it is a very sleek cool looking air force.

And the pilots apparently like to hug the ground for some reason;



And if you think a small looking Mirage can't do much damage because of its size, think again, a Rafale can fire an ASMP supersonic nuclear missile that has a yield equivilant to 300 kt of TNT!

Now that is quite a big punch for such a small little plane!