Iranian military: Ready to ambush enemy advanced fighters

ME News message. On April 4 (UTC+8), Ali Reza Elhami, commander of Iran’s Joint Air Defense Command, said that during his visit to Iran Army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps defensive positions on that day, Iran has “made preparations to ambush the enemy’s fifth-generation fighter jets and advanced unmanned aerial vehicles” by using newly developed methods and equipment independently researched and developed. He said that in earlier battles, Iran’s air defense forces successfully shot down several of the enemy’s advanced fighter jets, as well as more than 160 drones deployed jointly by the enemy, including “MQ-9,” “Hermes,” and “Lukas,” along with dozens of cruise missiles. Before the enemy launched its offensive operations, they took “timely and precise” actions. In the operations carried out by the Army and the air defense units of the Revolutionary Guard, multiple enemy fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft were hit, damaged, or crashed. Elhami said that this result was made possible by the innovative application of advanced tactics, modernized equipment, and innovations in air-defense systems, which threw the enemy into confusion. (Source: PANews)