Politics
An unusual scene in Iran’s skies... a pilot deliberately collides with a U.S. drone
WHAT TO KNOWFrom Lebanon Debate
In an unusual military incident, Iranian media revealed that an Iranian pilot resorted to colliding with a drone said to be American after failing to shoot it down with an air-to-air missile, in an attempt to prevent it from reaching a strategic facility. Despite the damage believed to have been sustained by his aircraft, it reported…
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