🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia's mystery shoulder-fired missile looks Chinese: the kind US officials suspect downed an F-15E over Iran Russian state TV showed an air defense crew near the Ukrainian border with a launcher matching no Russian model, and a box-shaped part up front looks most like China's QW series, though an Iranian or Russian copy hasn't been ruled out. US officials told NBC the F-15E lost over Iran in April was probably hit by a Chinese-made shoulder-fired missile, and Reuters later reported Tehran buying hundreds more, which Beijing called groundless. Beijing keeps promising it isn't arming Iran while Chinese-looking launchers turn up wherever America's rivals shoot at planes, so Washington should stop taking that on faith. Source: The War Zone, NBC News, Reuters / Writer: Daniel