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The Iranian Army's air defense system shot down another US F-15 fighter jet as part of Iran's response to the Zionist-American aggression.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'm surprised how we're not seeing Chinese AA systems randomly show up across Iran.

Not officially supplied by China, of course - sold to some neighbour, and mysteriously and "illegally" moved to Iran, along with some Chinese passer-by to monitor the systems performance against real American combat aircraft.

Especially against the F-35s, I assume they'd want to collect data.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 1 points 55 minutes ago

There famously have been and there has been ample news about them. Right now they are getting mocked because they could not stand up to the latest and greatest in the US military arsenal, but they also had to knock them out first and employ suitable modern stealth and electromagnetic warfare to take them down first. China is very much training up on that data, specially with the possibility of weakened US forces unable to address possible future attempts at Taiwan.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world -2 points 36 minutes ago

You misspelled Russian AA systems. And no, they're all tied in Ukraine