How An F-22 Stealth Fighter Flew Under an Iranian F-4 Phantom (Undetected)
Story by Eli Fuhrman • Yesterday 6:32 PM
Drones are becoming an increasingly prominent part of modern military inventories, and are now used for both reconnaissance and strike missions.
In eos 2019, for example, Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone that it claimed had flown into Iranian airspace.
That, however, was far from the first time that a U.S. drone had come under threat by Iran, and in 2013 Iranian fighter jets attempted to intercept a U.S. Air Force drone only to be surprised and turned away by a pair of F-22 Raptors.
That incident was itself a follow-up to a similar event that had taken place a year earlier. In 2012, a United States Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle was dispatched for a routine surveillance flight in international airspace.
While operating roughly 16 miles from the border with Iran, the Predator drone was intercepted by a pair of Iranian Air Force warplanes, which subsequently opened fire on the drone using their onboard cannons. The aircraft involved were Russian-made SU-25 Frogfoots, which are primarily operated as ground attack aircraft and as such are not well suited to engaging targets in the air – although even for such aircraft a slow-moving drone should have been a relatively easy target.
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