It's breaking news...meaning it may be inaccurate. CENTCOM certainly is saying it's false [0]. But there are enough signs of it being genuine, to be concerning at this stage.

Flying low over Iran at this point is planned, expensive "standoff" munitions were planned to give way to more accurate and less expensive munitions once air superiority was reached - which U.S. has been claiming has happened for a while now.

[0] https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039805134704660622

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ceejayoz 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> CENTCOM certainly is saying it's false…

Any time this administration cries "fake news" is probably a tell.

> Flying low over Iran at this point is planned…

But with C-130s and helos, in an area that just shot down a F-15? That's risky. One of the videos shows the C-130 deploying flares.

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uticus 11 hours ago | parent [-]

You do have a point. F-18 narrowly missed a MANPAD recently too

	▲	jacquesm 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The other way around.

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ceejayoz 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Update: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/us-fighter-jet-went-ir...

> An F-15 fighter jet pilot has been rescued alive by the U.S. military after their aircraft went down over Iran, a U.S. official said Friday.

> White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the incident — the latest dramatic development in the war, now more than a month old.

CENTCOM lied.

	▲	0x_rs 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The government would never lie: the "damaged" plane was already accounted for, just in the ground, in enemy territory.
	▲	netsharc 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The use of "a" instead of "the" pilot suggests more than 1 personnel on the plane, considering F15's carry 2 people (unless it's some magical F15 I haven't heard of), it means there's still 1 guy missing out there. Or he (I assume) could also have been found dead, and is not being mentioned before his family is notified of the sacrifice Donald Trump made of his life.