Veteran Russian Pilot Reveals How Iranian F-5 Ace May Have Snuck Through US Defenses

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Veteran Russian Pilot Reveals How Iranian F-5 Ace May Have Snuck Through US Defenses

There’s an array of tricks the Iranian F-5 variant that hit a US base in Kuwait on the second day of the war could have used, says Russian military analyst and Air Force Major (ret.) Andrei Krasnoperov.

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US media revealed this week that an Iranian F-5 variant penetrated layered US air defenses and bombed Kuwait's Camp Buehring base despite the presence of Patriot missile batteries, short-range interceptors, "advanced radar coverage" and regional surveillance.Speaking to Sputnik, Krasnoperov explained that the Iranian jet:The incident also once again confirms the ineffectiveness of US air defense platforms, including the vaunted Patriot missile system, according to Krasnoperov.

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