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Iranian air defenses shot down on April 3 a fighter jet of the United States Air Force, and shared photos showing some of the wreckage.
Initially, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it had shot down an F-35 Lightning II over the central region of the Islamic Republic, but the wreckage photos revealed that the fighter jet was in fact an F-15E Strike Eagle, specifically from the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom.
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The photos released by Iranian state media shows parts of the fighter jet’s wings, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, as well as electronic parts.
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One photo also shows a large charred crater on the ground, possibly the result of a strike that targeted the wreckage when the fighter jet first crashed.
The U.S. Central Command has not yet commented on the incident, and the fate of the fighter jet’s pilot and weapon systems officers remain unclear.
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The F-15E was developed to carry out long-range precision ground attacks while retaining strong air-to-air capability, with a top speed over Mach 2.5 and a large weapons payload. A single fighter jet of this type could cost upwards of $90 million.
The U.S. Air Force has already acknowledged losing three F-15Es during the ongoing war on Iran, but these fell as a result of Kuwaiti friendly fire on March 2.
In addition, Iran released footage on March 21 showing an F-15 fighter jet getting hit with an anti-aircraft missile over its southern region.
Iran appears to be successfully restoring the upper tier of its air defense network. The U.S. and even Israel will likely take more aerial losses.
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well done iran. kill bastards
the 1 day regime change operation is going well
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18 americunt military active and retired suicide daily unable to tolerate their ugly dystopia
young brainwahed american think they defend their country. but they don’t defend, they attack and it’s not their country but the country of the jewish ruling class. those who dare to say that are immediatly fired from the golem army.
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watch it, it’s freaking hilarious! and dead on 100% accurate and damning.
oh those silly zionists in washington and israel… they have got themselves into a real pickle by attacking iran… rofl!!!
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if they had souls american pilots and soldiers would object to blowing up and murdering people that did nothing to them.
thank you for your service!
iran can shoot ameritards “fighters”…
yugoslavia can shoot “stealth” with an old s-200 (everything soviet was better than liberal russian)
“nighthawks” quit the job after being humiliated by serbia!
but russia…
since the embassy of china and not of russia was bombed afterwards i think they had more to do with it.
russians left the mediteranean to show nato that the field is theirs at that time.
the somalia method would be the best one in this case (remember when somalis captured us soldiers). don’t be civilized with them, while they drop bombs on you.
but, but trump says us has air supremacy over iran! how could this be?
very soon images and wreckage like this will be commonplace all over iran. this attack on iran started badly and can only get worse the longer the usadmin keeps fooling itself. or the longer the usadmin is fooled by the isreali apartheid regime and its spies in the us.
send them a ticket for littering
according to us central command ‘these are not important plane parts. after estinguishing the fire in the laudry, the pilot, thx for his training, in an act of great bravery, unclogged the toilets of the f15 manually. the plane remains fully operational.’
8 x f-15 are lost ?? we are seen the final era of the great eagles …
give that man a coconut! hopefully the baby killers operating it have gone to hell where they belong.
allahu akbar!!! allahu akbar!!!
this can’t have happened, because iran’s air defence has been totally, completely, bigly obliterated. it must have been an accidental fire in the laundry area. or perhaps the pilot was smoking and it was a discarded cigarette. or another collision.