The impressive main image of this post shows the wreckage of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-16I Sufa that crashed on Feb. 10, 2018 after coming under “massive anti-aircraft fire” from Syrian forces.As reported by CNN the incident came after an Israeli AH-64 Apache combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched from Syria that infiltrated the country’s airspace early Saturday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.Both pilots aboard the Israeli jet are safe although one of them was severely injured as a result of an emergency evacuation from the plane.According Global Military Strategy & Statistics Facebook pagethe F-16I was shot down by an upgraded S-125 surface to air missile (NATO reporting name SA-3 Goa). Noteworthy on Mar. 17, 2015, a U.S. MQ-1 Predator drone was shot down by a Syrian Air Defense Force S-125 missile while on intelligence flight near the coastal town of Latakia.
