You might have heard that according to Syria Israeli jets penetrated Syrian airspace a couple of days ago.
The reason why this might have happened is not completely clear yet.
According to Debka it was a maneuver to test the capacity of Russian Pantsyr-S1E missiles. Both Iran and Syria purchased these missiles.
Debka writes: “Western intelligence circles maintain that it is vital for the US and Israel to establish the location and gauge the effectiveness of Pantsyr-S1E air defenses in Syrian and Iranian hands, as well as discovering how many each received. (…)
The purported Israeli air force flights over the Pantsyr-S1E site established that the new Russian missiles, activated for the first time in the Middle East, are effective and dangerous but can be disarmed. Western military sources attribute to those Israeli or other air force planes superior electronics for jamming the Russian missile systems, but stress nonetheless that they were extremely lucky to get away unharmed, or at worst, with damage minor enough for a safe return to base.”

Who knows, we will have a minor war with Iran before the next presidential election in the US.