U.S. Fighter Jet Shot Down in Iran, Search Underway for Crew

[ruet]

Source: Axios

Iran has shot down a U.S. fighter jet, per Iranian media and a source familiar with the incident, and a search and rescue effort is underway to locate two crew.

The big picture: It would be the first time since the beginning of the war that a U.S. jet was downed by enemy fire.

The U.S. military and the White House didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Driving the news: On Friday, Iranian state media published pictures and videos that allegedly show parts of the downed plane and one of the ejection seats.

The photos and videos suggest it is an F-15 fighter jet.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down

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"Obliterated!"

[otchmoson]

1. Do they, like Hegseth, opt

to show no quarter?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Trump likes pilots who don't get shot down

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. Damn good time to take out a member of Joint Chiefs

When can we start a predictive bet against Kegsbreath?

[cab67]

4. Were US aircraft shot down in Afghanistan or during the Iraq War.

Just curious. I know some were shot down during the Gulf War.

[Prairie Gates]

5. A lot were shot down during the first Gulf War

[ruet]

6. The numbers are hard to compile...

so I'll try to sum them up by memory.

In the first Gulf War we lost several
In the 2nd Gulf War we lost 4-5
In Afghanistan we lost 0

These are combat losses due to enemy fire for fixed-wing aircraft only. We lost many rotary aircraft in combat and and many fixed-wing aircraft due to accidents, friendly fire, etc.

[ruet]

7. I'm seeing reports that the crew has been captured.

None of them are from DU approved sources, for good reason, so I'm not going to post any stories regarding it.

[617Blue]

9. There appears to have been 2 ejections *

[ruet]

10. One thing to consider here...

is that all of this is hours old. The incident is probably over. We are being slow-walked on everything in this war. I hazard to guess we many never have even heard about it if not for the documentary evidence released by 3rd parties.

[617Blue]

11. True it seems to have happened yesterday. There was daylight search and rescue

which according to Nance is very rare.

[ruet]

12. For those interested.

Besides Malcom Nance, I highly recommend Let. Colonel Daniel Davis' YT channel. He's going live any second now.

[617Blue]

8. Malcolm Nance YT channel shows 2 pilot ejections and US rescue efforts C130 and 2 choppers

[niyad]

13. If this information is accurate, the US lost an F-15 AND an AWACS

yesterday, plus the F-15 pilots??? JFC, the fucking assholes in charge of this clusterfuck.

[Exp]

20. Trump has put the world in a dangerous place without good cause. Iran's nukes were "totally obliterated!" back in June,

right?

Obama had a very tight nuke arms agreement with Iran that the rest of the world backed. And the rest of the world would've helped in a new war if necessary - but a new war was not.

Don't you agree that the ICC should issue arrest warrants for Trump and Kegsbreath's war crimes?

[Dan]

15. I'm hoping that they do not

Chop off the head of the crew member if they find him/her - which I guess is okay since we no long abide by the Geneva Conventions, per our leaders.

[Bluetus]

16. Just a historical reminder

In 1980, Reagan made a treasonous deal with the Iranians to hold our hostages an extra 6 months to give Reagan a boost in the election. In return, we ended up with the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostage trade after Reagan took office.

A key point is that, despite this treasonous deal on Reagan's part, none of the hostages were mistreated. There were no reports of torture or anything like that.

So who are the monsters? Our hands are never clean in these deals.

[cab67]

21. One difference -

The hostages in 1979 were embassy officials. They hadn't dropped bombs on anyone.

[Bluetus]

23. Agreed. It would be an amazing amount of restraint not to treat today's hostages brutally.

We don't know if there are any hostages yet, but if there is a ground invasion, there will certainly be hostages.

[flashman13]

17. Malcolm Nance Black Man Spy has the info and videos.

[jeffreyi]

18. Well, that's s****y.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. American fighter jet downed over Iran, 1 crew member rescued, U.S. officials say

A U.S. F-15E fighter jet was downed over Iran Friday, and one crew member from the plane was later rescued by American forces, U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News.

The F-15E is flown by a two-member crew and a search and rescue effort is ongoing, sources said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downed-over-iran/

[republianmushroom]

22. Remember what trump said about service personel ?

Losers.