Iranians with hunting rifles bring down an Apache

 Tue 4:54 pm +00:00, 7 Apr 2026  

posted by Tapestry

Says Stas Krapivnik.  The video showed the Apache flying with a smoke trail.  That’s not a missile, he says.  That’s small arms.  There are millions of Iranian men all over Iran with hunting rifles.  No wonder Trump can’t work out what to do next.  All the US/Israeli high tech can’t deal with Iranians with ‘bows and arrows’.

There was no mud on the runway, he adds.  It’s totally dry.  The fuselages of the C-130s showed damage from small arms.  And maybe couldn’t fly for that reason.

So how did the raiding party get out?

They were fifty kilometres from the Gulf.  Not that far in.

One A-10 destroyed.  Another damaged.  A Chinook was ‘damaged’…equals scrap metal and spare parts.

Casualties? We don’t know.  Not just a few.

War in Lebanon is escalating, Israelis bombing churches.