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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.
psychopaths turn animal cruelty into sport.
no, a fair trial followed by a fair hanging. (works for the jooz in occupied palestine.)
they arent. its a legal war following peace negotiations where iran taunted america with tales of their nuclear enrichment it smells like entrapment by provocation. rather similar to how they entrapped russia into ukraine by having chinese intel tell putin that they were going to launch a biological weapon designed to genocide russians. which they pretend never happened obviously.
allegedly
stop believing western msm.
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.
senseless videos maybe, but every shot down us jet makes sense again 😂😂😂
hehehehehe you’re so hard to spot like vesuvius erupting
hehehehe most useless comment as usual hehehe
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
a-10? they shot one of those down as well. 2 blackhawks? 2 of those were hit and crashed. 🖕😂
fyi kamel-goat facking is punishable by death in iran, but legal in israel and several us states.
project much?
talking to yourself obviously. as usual here.
if the us had “100% air supremacy” then they wouldn’t be loosing aircraft.
it’s probably a jewish guy trying to make americans look bad.. few americans would talk like this.
i am marky narky, marco narco and i approve this massage.
an off-white juvenile inbred more likely. 💩
he’s a nazi. observation deduction allegedly
🇮🇷🙏💪💪💪🙏🇮🇷
regime change in imperialist states makes no sense, or by whom do you want to replace these idiots of stupid, devoured capitalist politicians???
that’s right, the population in the colonial states of the declining global west should suffer from their own political jugglers, after all, they chose them themselves, although they have no choice at all …heheheh
hehehehe there you are again so many names
a u.us. uh-60 black hawk rescue helicopter reportedly crashed during the extraction attempt.
where you see that
ai generated footage most likely from the war desperate profiteering pirates
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.
little scotty loves being anti american anti israel. he’s one of the gang and it was all set up by obama and biden for guess who? non rabbi that’s for certain and no ayatollah either it was a trap to catch russia and america imo did they know? are they playing dumb blondes?
if it’s true.
grown men playing hide and go seek
this is the entree. wait for the main menu, ziofaggots
another desperate americunt hoping to swallow persian jizz