How did Iran end the US superiority and demolish the idea of Israel’s invincible army?

Abdel Bari Atwan

Four days after the American president proudly and arrogantly announced the destruction of Iran’s air and naval forces, Iran responded quickly and on the ground by shooting down three fighter jets: the stealth “F-35”, worth over $500 million; the “F-15” strike fighter, worth no less than $100 million; and the “A-10”, a ground attack aircraft worth more than $30 million.

The downing of these three aircraft within 36 hours, and before that, the downing of two refuelling aircraft for fighters in the air, as well as the destruction of the AWACS warning aircraft equipped with the most important electronic surveillance devices that detect planes and missiles from a distance of 400 kilometres, which were stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, each valued at approximately 600 million dollars, has come as a shock to the American and Israeli leaderships, who had assumed Iran did not have them, particularly Russian missiles of the “S-300” and perhaps “S-400” varieties, as well as domestically built Iranian antiaircraft missiles of the “Khordad 15” type.

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