Iran shoots down U.S. F-15 fighter jet (defence-blog.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 11:54
https://lemmy.ml/post/45408243

Iran said it had shot down a United States Air Force fighter jet over its territory, and footage released by Iranian channels appears to show the wreckage of an F-15E Strike Eagle from the U.S. Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron.

Iranian outlets initially claimed the aircraft was an F-35, but a closer review of the debris shown in the video points to a different aircraft. Visible sections of the airframe, including parts of the fuselage and external mounting points, match the layout of the F-15E rather than the stealth design of the F-35.

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xenomor@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 14:19 next collapse

Good. Hope they got the pilot.

Edit: pilots

Further edit: fuck these pilots, they deserve endless scorn.

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 03 Apr 15:36 next collapse

Being a US Air Force pilot is like being a gas chamber operator during the Holocaust.

BuyEU@lemmy.ml on 03 Apr 16:51 next collapse

If you join a military that has been doing war crimes, and starting illegal wars since before you were born, I have no sympathy if you die.

rf_@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 17:08 next collapse

In the words of Trump to a soldier’s widow: “he knew what he signed up for”

rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works on 03 Apr 17:49 collapse

Edit: pilots

F-15 has 1 pilot, one weapons officer.

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 14:44 next collapse

Well - I mean - it’s a war. Fair game to self-defend against the aggressor.

merc@sh.itjust.works on 03 Apr 16:08 next collapse

The more high-profile losses there are for the US early in this war, the lower the chance of things escalating.

Counting on the Trump Administration to do the right thing is pointless. Counting on them to cave and avoid doing the unpopular thing is possible.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 17:24 collapse

Agreed.

As much as one might want their country to win, as an American who is 100% anti-war, incidents like this are definitely helpful to slowing the march to war and make it exponentially harder for Donald and Keg-breath to justify what they’re doing.

rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works on 03 Apr 18:06 next collapse

Strange way of putting boots on the ground.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 03 Apr 18:57 collapse

‘chutes on the ground.

GaMEChld@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 18:45 next collapse

… Did Trump just preside over the first F15 loss in history?

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 03 Apr 18:47 next collapse

Allegedly Kuwait shot down 3 of them before in a “friendly fire accident”. Though the friendly fire story is getting a tad dubious.

pokexpert30@jlai.lu on 03 Apr 18:48 next collapse

Didnt kuwait shut down two of them ? F15 never lost an air fight, but getting shot down by aa is something else

dan1101@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 19:43 next collapse

He finds new ways to fail and embarrass us all.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca on 03 Apr 19:50 collapse

slow clap

EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Apr 18:58 next collapse

Good, don’t attack other countries for no good reason then!

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 19:20 next collapse

So he’s just feeding strike fighters to the coyotes at this point, huh?

dan1101@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 19:44 collapse

Imagine dying for trump and Hegseth. Dishonorable death.