Comment by Rebelgecko
6 days ago
They're using Russian air defense that don't seem like much of a barrier for the US military (iirc same hardware Iran has)
6 days ago
They're using Russian air defense that don't seem like much of a barrier for the US military (iirc same hardware Iran has)
Big difference between helicopters in Caracas and fancy stealth aircraft over Iran.
You could shoot down a helicopter with a WW2 AA gun.
I would expect the F-35s that came in first took out every such gun on the route.
Much of this stuff is incredibly easy to hide, hard to imagine that. Surely you'd want to have MANPADS distributed widely in preparation for a possible US strike too.