Oh, Great. Now ISIS Says It Can Shoot Down Aircraft

The self-proclaimed Islamic State released photos  showing its fighters using surface to air missiles in Egypt’s restive Sinai, the terror group’s latest effort to strike at the biggest advantage its enemies hold: air power.

That ISIS could potentially shoot down aircraft near the Israeli border, where the Israelis frequently launch strikes, was especially worrying, experts said.

…

“It’s one of those things that could turn ugly very quickly. The danger with ISIS is that they would love to provoke an Israeli reaction. It would put Egypt in a bind and further raise their status in the Middle East,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“We don’t know what kind of shape the SAMs are in. It clearly is intended to be seen brandishing a weapon that could do quite a bit of damage,” Gartenstein-Ross said.

… 

Read the full article here.