No one uses that expression in Iran any more.
I wonder if they looked tic-tac-shaped?
Dry run for the real attack?
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Looks like the Imans will have to spend some of the Obama bucks on upgrading to Russian S-400 missile systems.
im guessing the “radar signatire” of the uav was smaller in size th a n what thr air defense system were designed :”to see”.
a ‘softball’, yes a “ping pong ball”, no.
That doesn’t explain the explosion that started the story.
NEWSRAEL: It is further reported that the failure of its air defense system at Natanz has got Iran in a fit and heads are about to roll...Mossad has used drones to drop bombs to waiting scientists and installation people to be placed where they will so the most damage. Also they have made use of bombs built into the plant construction materials.Updated Iranian sources revealed that unmanned aerial vehicles penetrated Iran's airspace because air defense systems were unable to shoot them down.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, more than five reconnaissance UAVs penetrated Iranian airspace, and the Iranian missile system "Bavar 373" and the Russian S-300 missile system failed to shoot them down.
The paper added that the drones were on a mission to spy and patrol the area of the nuclear facility at Natanz and the surrounding military sites.
The UAVs that were on a spy mission continued to fly over the Natanz facility did so for more than 40 minutes, without one of them being shot down.
Sources also revealed that after the failure of the Iranian air defense systems in the downing of the drones, the Air Force of the Revolutionary Guards used blocking systems in the skies of Natanz, as a result of which the communications and internet were cut off in large areas in the area.
Sources noted that the failure of the anti-aircraft system - the "S-300" to intercept the drones is due to the fact that Russia did not hand over all parts of the system to Iran.
The report is due to a controversy over what happened behind the explosion that took place yesterday in the city of Natanz in Asfahan in central Iran.
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