INTERESTING REPORT:

The same U.S. platforms sold to Qatar despite Pentagon warnings about technology leakage, the F-15QA, AH-64E Apache, and MQ-9 Reaper, are the very aircraft types later downed or lost during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

An F-15QA was shot down over Iran, an Apache was lost over the Strait of Hormuz, and multiple MQ-9s were destroyed during the campaign.

Qatar’s security cooperation agreement with Iran has long raised concerns among critics that sensitive U.S. technology or military know how could ultimately find its way to Tehran.

The question now is whether warnings once dismissed as hypothetical helped Iran develop countermeasures against some of America’s most advanced aircraft.

Via MEMRI