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One crew member rescued, other is still MIA and being actively searched for https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down https://www.axios.com/202
by rhcom2 6mo ago
One crew member rescued, other is still MIA and being actively searched for
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down
- ceejayoz 6mo agoAnd CENTCOM's lying about it. https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039805134704660622 https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039805134704660622
- vorpalhex 6mo agoThat tweet is from yesterday. Iran tweets about taking down an American jet basically daily. By their count we are down 40 f-35s, 4 aircraft carriers and thousands of MQ-9s.
- ceejayoz 6mo ago> That tweet is from yesterday. That's when the shootdown happened, yes. > Iran tweets about taking down an American jet basically daily. Sure. We have two sets of demonstrable liars here. See, for example, the E-3 Sentry that got blown up; it took leaked photos for that to be admitted. And don't get me started on the several times in the last few months we've "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capacity and missiles and whatnot only to be told it's time to do it again.
- e-khadem 6mo agoThe claim being addressed is a shootdown over Qeshm island, which is the biggest island just west of the strait of Hormuz. The current CSAR operations are happening somewhere in the Khuzestan province. Probably somewhere within the 150 km radius of [1] based on online footage of the C-130 flying over. [1] 31.941606, 50.311765
- buildsjets 6mo agoAnd they have not edited it or taken it down... why?
- e-khadem 6mo agoBecause almost all of the people inside Iran have been disconnected for the past 35 days [1]. And believe it or not, they are texting these news live to all mobile phones on a daily basis as well. Some regime supporters believe it, because the want to believe it, they need to believe it. Just in the past 24 hours I have received 5 different messages from different organizations claiming victory and damage to US / Israel assets. Just for a quick laugh, look at the official (Iranian) president's letter to the American people published yesterday [2]. The font changes between the paragraphs! [1] https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116339631989805542 https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116339631989805542 [2] https://x.com/drpezeshkian/status/2039418009052119190?s=20 https://x.com/drpezeshkian/status/2039418009052119190?s=20
- jiggawatts 6mo agoIt’s so bizarre, they’re using “fancy” formatting with em dashes but there are extra full stops inserted randomly throughout.
- cpursley 6mo ago"We" Very cool that you have a side hustle as a US fighter jet pilot!
- budman1 6mo agoIt's known as the Air National Guard. Work for United during the week, and fly F16's one weekend a month.
- user_7832 6mo agoHate to say it and sound so "conspiracy-like", but I no longer can trust what the current US administration is saying. Ever since the path of a hurricane was redrawn with a sharpie, it's been... unusual.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6mo agoYour comment is a perfect setup for the cynicism olympics where people rush to say you could never trust the govt.
- lazide 6mo agoHas there been a time where (after later facts came out) they were wrong?
- calculatte 6mo agoOr the bootlicker olympics for those who want everyone else to ignore the constant lies because they think bigger, more powerful government is utopian.
- ifyoubuildit 6mo agoDo you have some reasons for hope for the cynics in the crowd?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6mo agoNot really. Just that trust ain't binary and the govt is made of people. I don't like this admin but this too shall pass. Cultivate your garden. Electing bad people has consequences.
- dragonwriter 6mo agoThe US military is in the middle of a top-level political purge; both honesty and competence as an institution will be below normal levels for the forseeable future, and honesty about sensitive operations during wartime is never much even as a baseline.
- junofan 6mo ago[flagged]
- surgical_fire 6mo agoI am not from the US, so I don't really care about how it does its things. I definitely don't expect political purges on bureaucracy in my country of residence after elections, and I would consider it an extremely bad sign. Typically the new party replaces the top levels; this is expected. Director of something, secretary of this and that, minister of something else, etc. The actual bureacrats doing day to day work typically are not political agents. Getting rid of them for political reasons indicate loss of know-how, tacit knowledge, and competence, in the name of blind loyalty.
- derektank 6mo agoThis was also true of the US. It’s expected to replace the Secretary of Defense and a variety of subordinate secretaries and undersecretaries like the Secretary of the Army with political leaders affiliated with the President’s party. Military officers at the highest level, such as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs or the Chiefs of Staff of the respective branches, are somewhat political, but they are expected to be professionals chosen for merit. And below that level, it has historically been very frowned upon for political leadership to directly involve itself in the selection and promotion of flag officers beyond setting criteria and expectations.
- sco1 6mo ago> Not a popular election where people vote to put new people in charge, which necessarily means removing the old people in charge. More than a year after they took office and in the middle of a war?
- tristanj 6mo agoNo, that tweet is from 20 hours ago, and is about a separate incident which happened two days ago over Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The current F-15 crash incident happened today near the city of Lali, in Iran’s Khuzestan Province.
- golfer 6mo agoNon-walled article reporting the rescue: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downed-over-iran/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downe...