🚨 ABC News confirms: Iran used 'advanced' passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15.
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April 3, 2026
Inside Baseball: China has bolstered Iran's overall air defense network (especially radar and some missile components), the specific passive infrared detection emphasized in… pic.twitter.com/EMg9apThS3
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🚨 ABC News confirms: Iran used 'advanced' passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15.
Inside Baseball: China has bolstered Iran's overall air defense network (especially radar and some missile components), the specific passive infrared detection emphasized in claims around the F-15E incident traces primarily to Iran's own Majid/AD-08 program and similar domestic passive FLIR/IRST setups.
However, don't be sucked in by the hype. These are not uniquely "advanced" or invisible game-changers—they represent a known vulnerability for any hot aircraft (stealth or not) at closer ranges, countered by flares, maneuvers, DIRCM, and layered tactics.
Claims of total invisibility to "trillions in U.S. tech" remain exponentially overstated; air superiority involves trade-offs across spectra, altitudes, and tactics, not any single sensor.
Independent verification of exact sensors in fluid combat remains limited amid heavy disinformation from all sides.
Iran shoots down US jet; 1 pilot rescued, US races against Iran to find the second
[IsraelTimes] Israeli official says IAF postponed strikes in area to allow for search; Iran offers bounty for missing crew member?
One crew member was rescued Friday and searches were ongoing for the second after an American F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft was shot down in Iran, according to a US and an Israeli official. The incident marked the first time Iran
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has shot down a US fighter plane since the start of the US-Israel war against Iran on February 28.
US military officials said both pilots ejected. The US military search-and-rescue operation was being assisted by Israel, according to three people familiar with the details.
Iran was also searching for the missing pilot, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said to have closed off an area in southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, where they believed the crew member went down.
Two American helicopters were struck by Iranian fire during the search and rescue efforts, NBC News reported. Citing a US official, the report said the service members on those craft were all safe.
The Israeli Air Force postponed strikes in areas of Iran where the search efforts were taking place, an Israeli official said.
According to an email from the Pentagon obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the US military said that it received notification of "an aircraft being shot down" in the Middle East. The email did not provide more details.
The White House said that US President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
had been briefed but did not offer any additional information.
Iranian media has posted what appears to be debris from a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle, reportedly downed earlier today.
A short time later the White House called a "lid" for the press, indicating Trump would not be making any appearances in front of the media for the day.
The call came hours earlier than normal and signaled the US president and White House were remaining tight-lipped as the search-and-rescue mission continued for the second serviceperson.
A short while earlier, Trump had said the downing of the plane would not affect negotiations over ending the conflict. "No, not at all. No, it’s war. We’re in war," Trump told NBS.
The Pentagon and US Central Command didn’t immediately respond to several messages seeking comment.
Images posted online and not immediately verifiable appeared to show debris of a US F-15E fighter jet.
It was the first time the US has lost aircraft in Iranian territory, marking a further escalation in the war, which will enter its sixth week on Saturday.
"An American hostile fighter jet in central Iranian airspace was struck and destroyed by the IRGC Aerospace Force’s advanced air defense system," said a spokesperson for the Iranian military’s central operational command, Khatam al-Anbiya.
"The jet was completely obliterated, and further searches are ongoing," the front man said.
US RESCUE AIRCRAFT SPOTTED AS IRANIAN MEDIA OFFERS BOUNTY FOR PILOT
Prior to word of the rescue, social media footage showed American drones, aircraft and helicopters flying over the mountainous region where a TV channel affiliated with Iranian state television
had said that at least one pilot bailed out of the fighter jet.
Iranian media urged residents of the area to join the hunt for the crew, offering a bounty for the capture of any US servicemen, while local TV anchors initially urged viewers who see Americans to "shoot them as soon as you see them."
"Dear and honorable people of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, if you capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police and military forces, you will receive a valuable reward and bonus," said an Iranian television news hound on the official local channel.
"Military forces have launched a search operation to find the American fighter pilot who was hit earlier today," Iran’s Fars news agency said.
The channel showed metal debris in the back of a pickup truck while making the announcement, but provided no other immediate details.
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— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 3, 2026
A U.S. A-10 Warthog attack aircraft reportedly crashed near the Strait of Hormuz at roughly the same time a U.S. F-15 was downed over Iran, according to U.S. officials cited by the NYT. 
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A U.S. A-10 Warthog attack aircraft reportedly crashed near the Strait of Hormuz at roughly the same time a U.S. F-15 was downed over Iran, according to U.S. officials cited by the NYT. 
Both incidents come amid escalating combat operations and ongoing rescue efforts for downed aircrew.
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‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 BREAKING | According to unconfirmed reports, one of the A-10C+ Thunderbolt II aircraft involved in the RESCAP (rescue combat air patrol) mission was also engaged by a MANPADS. The aircraft survived the engagement and returned safely to its base in Jordan with minor damage… pic.twitter.com/7qbimcjcJ3
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An American A-10 attack aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf.
An American A-10 attack aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf, and the pilot was rescued. The New York Times (NYT) reported this on April 3.
According to the publication, citing US officials, a US Air Force A-10 Warthog attack aircraft crashed in the Strait of Hormuz. Its sole pilot survived. The plane crashed around the same time a US Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran.
On April 3, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the downing of a second American F-35 fighter jet over Iran. One of the fighter's two pilots was rescued.
The previous incident occurred on March 19 in central Iran. At the time, the Iranian military claimed that the F-35 aircraft had been seriously damaged.
On March 22, Iranian air defense forces intercepted an F-15 fighter jet near Hormuz Island and launched a missile strike on the aircraft.
A-10 Warthog crashes near Strait of Hormuz; pilot rescued
[IsraelTimes] Throughout the war, Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
has made a series of claims about shooting down piloted enemy aircraft that turned out not to be true.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
another American plane involved in the war in Iran crashed in the Persian Gulf on Friday, according to US officials cited by The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
According to the Times, the A-10 Warthog went down near the Strait of Hormuz at around the same time that the F-15E was shot down over Iran.
The report said the pilot from the A-10 was safely rescued.
The US officials did not provide further details on how the plane crashed.
Friday’s incidents were not the first time that US aircraft were damaged or destroyed during the war with Iran, as last month, a US F-35 had to make an emergency landing at a Middle East base after it was apparently hit by Iranian fire.
Three US F-15 fighter jets were also mistakenly shot down by Kuwait, in an incident of so-called friendly fire, in early March.
A week later, six US Air Force crew members died after a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq, in an apparent accident involving another tanker. The military said the loss of the aircraft was "not due to hostile or friendly fire."
Additionally, a US Air Force E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft was destroyed last weekend during an Iranian attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...The attack, involving at least one missile and several drones, maimed 12 US service members and damaged several refueling planes, according to reports.
The US confirmed losing the plane, which was reportedly only one of 16 operational E-3 Sentry planes before the attack on the airbase in Saudi Arabia, down from a fleet of around 30 decades ago.