Iran's Air Defense Missiles Must Be Taken Seriously

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei inspects a Khordad-3 air defence system in Tehran in May 2014

Times of Israel: Iran’s air defense missiles must be taken seriously, experts say

Tehran’s downing of a sophisticated US drone – albeit a large, slow one – shows it knows how to use its missile systems, though it still lags far behind US capabilities.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The shooting down last week of a sophisticated US drone by an Iranian missile demonstrates that Tehran’s air defense capabilities can pose a challenge to US air superiority, experts say.

The Global Hawk, an advanced US navy surveillance drone, was flying at high altitude — it can reach 60,000 feet (18 kilometers) — early Friday local time when it was struck by a ground-to-air missile by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.

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Update #1: Iran air defence missiles must be taken seriously: experts (AFP)
Update #2: What shooting down a $110M US drone tells us about Iran (Nick Paton Walsh, CNN)

WNU Editor: I am sure the U.S. military is being careful right now.