Drone Downed: How Iran Proved the U.S. Military Is Not Invincible
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 mor...
Source: nationalinterest.org