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United States President Donald Trump announced on April 5 that the second crew member of the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet shot down two days earlier over Iran had been rescued, calling the mission to get back the weapons system officer “one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History.”
Trump said in a post to Truth Social that the unnamed crew member, a colonel, was injured but “will be just fine,” describing him as “SAFE and SOUND!”
The officer was stuck in “the treacherous mountains of Iran” and was rescued as “enemy forces” closed in on him, he wrote.
“At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him,” Trump added, also confirming the rescue of the pilot of the F-15E a two earlier.
“This is the first time in military memory that two U.S. Pilots have been rescued, separately, deep in Enemy Territory,” he wrote. “The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies.”
The F-15E — from the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom — was shot down in the province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad in the southwest of the Islamic Republic on April 3.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet was shot down while taking part in the operation to rescue the F-15E’s pilot. It crashed in Kuwait with its pilot ejecting safely. There were also reports that an UH-60 Black Hawk and two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters were damaged in the same mission.
The second operation to rescue the weapons system officer was conducted by a specialized commando unit with a high volume of air cover, and the U.S. forces unleashed a hail of heavy fire, an American official told Axios.
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Another report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that the officer, who was injured when the F-15E was hit, had to perform a “daring move to meet his rescue team.”
American MQ-9 Reaper combat drones shot at Iranians attempting to capture the downed officer during his approximately 36 hours in a mountainous region before his rescue, the newspaper says, citing officials and people familiar with the operation.
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Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that two transport aircraft spiriting taking part in the operation n got stuck on the ground and had to be blown up, with three new planes sent into Iran to take the officer and rescue team out.
The military then blew up the transport planes so they would not fall into Iran’s hands, the newspaper reported, noting that hundreds of special operations soldiers took part in the mission.
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Iranian media reported that five people were killed in strikes during the American operation to rescue the weapons system officer.
At the same time, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that several U.S. aircraft were destroyed during the mission, according to Tasnim news agency.
“During a joint operation (Aerospace, Ground Force, Popular Units, Basij and Police command), enemy aircraft were destroyed,” the force said after Iran’s police command claimed an American C-130 plane had been downed in the south of Isfahan.
The spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the unified command of the Iranian armed forces, said the downed aircraft included a C-130 military transport plane as well as two Black Hawk helicopters.
Initial analysis of footage from the scene indicates that the aircraft destroyed during the American mission included at least one MH-6 Little Bird.
While the rescue operation was without a doubt successful, it was clearly very costly for the U.S. military, with reports suggesting that, in total, as many as six aircraft may have been lost, including the downed F-15e.
With diplomatic efforts showing very little progress in recent days, the success of the operation could encourage Trump to escalate further by Iran. He has already renewed threats to hit Iranian energy facilities, and could then order ground operations.
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too late to rescue the ugly decayed americunt empire😂
this means that the whole pr search and rescue mission was lost
the “second member” if rescued is then dead, this is the 🔥absolute worst🔥 sar operation ever
in addition there is yet to be clarified a second video of an unidentified plane (believed an a-10)
but all looking like a f-15 or 16
not even jesus christ could help the empire this weekend
i think he could, but he never would. in fact i belive he would fight against the satanists.
load of abc generated crap meanwhile irans lost both its entire navy
and air force , over 15000 ships and who knows how many millions of air craft since msm controlled western media’s won’t say anything about it at all.
load of abc generated crap meanwhile irans lost both its entire navy
and air force , over 15000 ships and who knows how many millions of air craft since msm controlled western media’s won’t say anything about it at all.
load of ai generated crap meanwhile irans lost both its entire navy
and air force , over 150 ships and who knows how many hundreds of air craft since msm controlled media’s won’t say anything about it at all.
and russia ran out of missiles in 2022…..
and they ran out of food and are all eating each other now.
load of abc generated crap meanwhile irans lost both its entire navy
and air force , over 15000 ships and who knows how many millions of air craft since msm controlled western media’s won’t say anything about it at all.
go jooze somewhere else, parasite!
stupid americunt —a farcical inferior species
look very very closely. don’t lie to yourself. looks this like victory?
like hitler, like ukraine the satanists looks big at first, because they are the deceivers. but in every fight they crumbles over the time to ashes.
so the wrong side will end: in hell
any links to those numbers
inferior americunts submissive well trained feminized accept all lies—“all us media lies”. col d macgregor
ussa died in iran. rest in piss
no help from england or nato or anywhere that will be suffering fuel shortages and price hikes and fertiliser shortages and food price rises and transport based inflation, as they seem indifferent to being held to ransom by irans toll way over the straits. maybe this is why… the greatest beyrayal in english history my easter message to our muslim king. gofrey bloom official you tube.
usa has the biggest and best military in the world. they don’t need those wimpy ally nations.
your brainwash is showing
yeah, we saw…
that’s probably why they are so successful in iran…heheheh
the whole world is held to ransom by the jooz. put the blame where it belongs – on the jooz.
the bootlicker of the zionists think they are member in the zio club. little they know they are the donkeys on which they rode.
rescue was a disaster so trump could make headlines, iranians likely set up an ambush for the old fool’s predictable and reckless rescue.
two c130 super?!? a rescue mission?
these morons tried to land a bridgehead. this is not venezuela you monkeys.
now they got what they deserved. and btw. i don’t believe they could rescue a fart out of that inferno. many special ops must have bite the dust there.
i lost many teeth wrapping my lips around hebrew peniz in americunt gay bars
the small minded zionists have no way to counter the truth and their only remaining option is to use filth and vulgarity to try to discredit certain websites. the global awakening cannot be stopped and these kinds of actions only serve to awaken more people and hence hasten it.
all americunt males penetrated by hebrew or hillbilly peniz by age 11 lose anuz virginity but prefer exotic taliban jizz in anuz
u see those photos? that is what an empire graveyard looks like….come closer…..
only now i notice this
around the plane there are lots of impacts
💥 it was a trap by iran all the time, they had the pilot💥
i’ll wait for the iranian version for the truth.
yes, me too.
time to shoot down more jets with their pilots so they have to come back again (but next time kill even more of them!). :d
when you’re winning so hard, you have enough of it already.
success? are you high “russian” magas one pilot for 6 aircraft or even more? hahahaha.
i really hope trump invades. 6 aircraft for 1 dead pilot! lmao!
the new york time story dont add up, the aircraft wouldn’t land behind enemy line and the blackhawks would just drop the special forces and goes back up in the air . even if they did stay grounded they would be able to take off quick. the transport aircraf got stuck on the ground,i guess the there was a runway in the mountains .
i think that us had rescued the pilot before a landing special forces operation that wanted to put boots on ground! and this operation have been failed like that “eagle claw” operation..
sorry, but i find epstein’s little orange friend’s story about as credible as the “extraordinary healing ability” he claims for his ear. too bad it doesn’t work for the rest of his visibly decaying body.
probably demonstrates how easy it is to infiltrate a country the size of iran but staying there for any length of time is another matter completely.
the us marine corps would never use c-130 transporters to carry special operations forces into this mountain terrain. you can bet these c-130 were refueling the helicopters carrying the special forces and performed an emergency landing after being hit by the iranians. do you see a runway in the video? me neither!
good point
anything can be faked now meanwhile not one picture on sf ,or any other internet enabled neo nazi anti semitic anti american agencies revealing the elimination of iran’s entire air force and navy .
as expected from total propaganda activists imo .deduction though proves what the evidence forbids to be shown
i just say paratroopers…
that was a special c-130 they used for short take off/landing
and at the 4th photo there is an impact (we hadn’t notice that before)
planes were attacked in land by iran
also they may have never rescue the pilot, there iranians might have lure them using the pilot’s beacon
success? 1 f-15, 1 a-10, 3-4 drones, 2 ch-130, 5-6 helicopters destroyed or heavily damaged. another 2-3 of those and you will have a victorious defeat. 2 hc-130 are a big loss. anyway, why iranians did not send a lot of drones to hit them? in ukraine the landing force would have been destroyed on the spot.
the usual anti american pro wef comments from the same source.
hi, me ali steptoe, tehran no. 1 scrap dealer. mr. president trumpy, you good guy, you please invade iran soon. your f15, f35, c130s, choppers, they good scrap, but they all melted down now. you send more. you invade iran now. my guys have families to feed. you keep send more planes, need more scrap for my furnace. thank you president trumpy. you good business.m
overwhelming air dominance, claims tumpty dumbty. then how was the f15 shot down
a fire in the laundry area.
overwhelming air dominance and have two f-35s downed.
i lost my virginity to gay hillbillies in my americunt trailer when i was 9–now i am senile retired burger flipper
losing six aircraft is a small price to pay to bring a homosexual back home to his lgbt trailer park to be sodomized by his mulatto husband.