Incidents

Iranian air defense shot down the F-35 Israeli fighter? That stands according to Tehran's statements

To spread: In the Iranian information space, on June 18, a report of the F-35I adir fighter in the sky above the suburb of Tehran-Varamin. However, publications are about the use of some "advanced air defense system", although Iran does not provide objective evidence. Iranian Agency Irna refers to the statement of the head of the administration of Varamin Hussein Abbasi, who said that the F-35 Israeli F-35 fell about 35 kilometers southeast of Tehran.

It should be noted that the publication of the Iranian agency was accompanied by an image of the F-35 fragments, probably created by artificial intelligence, which caused a violent reaction on the network. The audience of The Aviationist indicated a clear fake image, and the Israeli side stressed that the news of a shot down plane was "Iranian propaganda. " It is also interesting that the Iranian media did not name a specific type of air defense complex, which was allegedly shot down.

Although a number of assumptions, the Iranian Bavar-373 system could be used, which was previously positioned as an analogue of the Russian C-400 and which was allegedly optimized to detect stealth-frames. From the moment when active fighting began, where the opposing parties were actively exchanging blows, Iranian government sources reported that the first two Israeli fighters were destroyed on June 13-14 and the third aircraft was intercepted on June 14.