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One of two crew members of a United States Air Force fighter jet that was shot down over Iran on April 3 was located and rescued by American special forces, and the search for the second is ongoing, Axios reported, citing an Israeli official and a second source with knowledge of the situation.
The fighter jet, an F-15E Strike Eagle from the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, shot down in the province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad in the southwest of the Islamic Republic in the early morning.
Axiso confirmed in its report that both the pilot and the weapon systems officers ejected safely after being struck by Iranian fire
The U.S. military quickly launched a search and rescue operation, sending aircraft with special forces into Iranian territories.
“U.S. special forces located one of the crew members and rescued him, alive, on Iranian territory,” the American news website said in its report.
The Israeli official who spoke to Axios said that their country is “helping the U.S. with intelligence in order to locate the other crew member.”
They also revealed that Israel cancelled planned strikes in the Islamic Republic so as not to hamper the search and rescue efforts.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN that “President Trump has been briefed” on the situation.
Iran is also hunting for the crew of the downed jet and has asked civilians in the area to join the search, offering a reward if they’re found. Recent videos from Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad showed civilians opening fire from their personal firearms at U.S. aircraft taking part in the search and rescue operation.
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.
Early on in the war on Iran, specifically on March 2, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged losing three F-15Es, all fell as a result of Kuwaiti friendly fire.
The downing of the fighter jet was a blow to the U.S. Air Force, and the ongoing search and rescue operation could lead to more American losses.
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any captured aircrew should be treated as terrorists and unlawful combatants.
war of aggression. hanged or shot at the spot. stop cuddle with the cannibals.
do they celebrate easter in iran with fireworks ? 😂 most meaningless videos so far.
for to clarify; you do not even know they are from iran. you get served a trick movie in 9/11, and then ordered to commit suicide at the hospitals.
both pilots have been rescued and our a-10 warthogs have blasted, strafed, sliced and ground up lots and lots of towelhead kamel-goat facking, persian sand monkeys both military and otherwise. hehehe.
you’re butthurt aren’t you, you white racist fuck.
yourbutthurst & oozes. a low & slow c-130 +2 blackhawks refueling over iranian territory while successfully conducting rescue mission says a lot. iran has lost all of its integrated-multilayered countrywide air defense network & all those russian-chinese wunderwaffe sam’s such as s300-s400, hq-9/hq16, tor-m1 & radars etc. are history, iran has only a few ineffective manpads left. we have almost 100% air supremacy. hehehe
it’s probably a jewish guy trying to make americans look bad.. few americans would talk like this.
an off-white juvenile inbred more likely. 💩
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a u.us. uh-60 black hawk rescue helicopter reportedly crashed during the extraction attempt.
where you see that
wrong weapon type at the wrong distance.
somebody should teach them the use of portable anti air missiles, send their soldiers together with those into networks – at least lines – of defense at least around the expected destination point of the enemy, and finally teach them ballistics so they stop wasting ammo for pocking holes into air.
scott ritter announced earlier that the isreali apartheid regime just lost 40 of its 60 odd f-35’s in one single attack by iran which lasted about 30 mins. the idf just lost most of its air support. tough times ahead for the isreali apartheid regime which took so much joy from inflict that on others.
grown men playing hide and go seek