BREAKING: Two Iranian jets flew at 80 feet above the Persian Gulf to avoid radar.

They were two minutes from Al-Udeid Air Base when Qatar shot them down.
Al-Udeid is the largest US air base in the Middle East. 10,000 American personnel. The command hub for the entire Operation Epic Fury campaign. Iran sent two Soviet-era Su-24 bombers, flying so low they were skimming the water, directly at it.
A Qatari F-15 intercepted them. Downed both. Qatar’s first aerial combat engagement in its history.
Sit with the sequence of events on March 2 alone.
Qatar’s Emiri Air Force intercepts 7 Iranian ballistic missiles, 5 drones, and shoots down 2 manned Iranian aircraft in a single day. Then QatarEnergy shuts down all LNG production and declares Force Majeure on every contract.
This is the same Qatar that spent the last decade positioning itself as the Gulf’s indispensable neutral, the country that hosts both US forces and Hamas political leadership, the mediator everyone calls when no one else will pick up the phone.
Qatar’s neutrality died on March 2.
And here is the strategic consequence nobody has fully priced.
The Su-24 flew at 80 feet because that is below the radar floor. Iran developed that tactic specifically because it knows Gulf air defense systems have a low-altitude blind spot. The planes were not on a reconnaissance mission. You do not arm Su-24s, fly at 80 feet across open water, and aim directly at the world’s most important US air base on a reconnaissance mission two minutes from your target.
This was not a probe. This was the attempt.
Qatar stopped it. But Iran now knows exactly where the radar gap is, what the intercept time looks like, and how Qatari F-15s respond under pressure.
The next attempt will account for all of that.$BTC ‌#USIranTensionsImpactMarkets