[Rebelgecko]

They're using Russian air defense that don't seem like much of a barrier for the US military (iirc same hardware Iran has)

[monerozcash]

Big difference between helicopters in Caracas and fancy stealth aircraft over Iran.

You could shoot down a helicopter with a WW2 AA gun.

[ceejayoz]

I would expect the F-35s that came in first took out every such gun on the route.

[monerozcash]

Much of this stuff is incredibly easy to hide, hard to imagine that. Surely you'd want to have MANPADS distributed widely in preparation for a possible US strike too.