Iran boasted Saturday that a new air defense system — credited with shooting down two US planes — will allow it to “definitely achieve full control” over its airspace as American and Israel forces continued to hammer the country.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya joint military command made the bold claim on state media, Reuters reported.
The besieged Islamic Republic could have used a Third Khordad missile system, a mobile medium-range surface-to-air defense system, to shoot down the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet, The New York Times reported.
Other experts suspect that Iran used passive infrared detection systems to track…
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