Drone Downed: How Iran Proved the U.S. Military Is Not Invincible
The aircraft in question was a large U.S. Navy drone called the RQ-4N Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Drone (BAMS-D) with wings spanning 35 meters across as wide as a 737 airliner.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Essentially, the destruction of drones engaged in surveillance activities has not yet been treated as a casus belli. Such murky precedents appear to have motivated Tehran to overtly destroy a valuable U.S. military asset conducting a likely routine surveillance mission over international airspace.
Early in the morning on June 20, 2019, a transporter erector launcher truck near the coastal town of Gerouk, Iran, angled its three missiles heavenward as its boxy phased array radar illuminated a target dozens of miles to the south. Gerouk overlooks one of the narrowest parts of the Straits of Hormuz through which huge oil tankers transiting to and from ports in the Persian Gulf must pass for access to the Ind
Saudi Arabia has temporarily closed some of the largest civil airports because of several Iranian/Yemeni Shia rebel attempts to attack these airports and destroy airliners and kill civilians Two ballistic missiles and four UAV cruise missiles were appar
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Israeli sailors stand on board the first of four new German-built Saar 6 naval vessels in the northern Haifa city naval base
The tough stance of the Trump administration against the nuclear deal with Iran has now morphed and changed into the Americans feeling their way back to the deal. A day after an April 6 Red Sea attack attributed to Israel’s naval commando on the Iranian military vessel the MV Saviz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made this amazing declaration at a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day: “To our good friends as well, I say, The deal with Iran that poses and threatens our destruction will not obligate us. ” History, Netanyahu added, has taught Israel that such agreements are worthless. “There is only one thing that we will be committed to: deterring all those who wish to annihilate us from achieving their goal, he warned,
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Israel adopts controlled escalation policy for Iran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu desperately sees how the tough stance of the Trump administration against the nuclear deal with Iran has now morphed and changed into the Americans feeling their way back to the deal.
Israeli sailors stand on board the first of four new German-built Saar 6 naval vessels purchased by the navy, in the northern Haifa city naval base, Israel, Dec. 2, 2020.
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What started out in total silence, deep under the radar or the sea, is fast becoming a violent, dangerous clash attracting wide media coverage. Israel and Iran are lifting the veil over their military conflict and no one seems overly troubled. On the contrary. A day after an April 6 Red Sea attack attributed to Israel’s naval commando on the Iranian military vessel the MV Saviz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made this amazing declaration at a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day: “To our good friends as well, I