‘You Really Ought to Go Home’: How A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Flew Right Under Iran F-4 Fighter Phantom Totally Unseen

‘You Really Ought to Go Home’: How A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Flew Right Under Iran F-4 Fighter Phantom Totally Unseen

Summary and Key Points: In March 2013, two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom IIs scrambled to intercept an American MQ-1 Predator drone flying surveillance approximately 16 miles off the Iranian coast in international airspace. They did not know that two U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors operating from a base in the United Arab Emirates were flying escort. Lt. Col. Kevin Showtime Sutterfield, an Air Force Reservist flying the lead F-22, eased his aircraft…