US F-15E shot down over Iran

[Resistance1]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Emile (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: The Guardian

A US F-15E fighter has been shot down over Iran, prompting a frantic US search and rescue effort for its two-strong crew, in the first such incident since the start of the war.

Iranian state media released images of a tail fin and other debris early on Friday accompanied by an initial claim that a US F-35 had been hit by a new air defence system over central Iran and the pilot probably killed.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-f-15e-jet-confirmed-142840661.html

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If the Iranians capture these pilots, they will make a public spectacle of their torture and possible demise

[Walleye]

1. So we are doing our best to provide them with hostages, I guess

[David__77]

5. Wouldn't they be prisoners of war?

[Walleye]

6. So I guess they can be held until the "war" is over

[David__77]

10. Sure. The US, Israel and Iran can sit down together and negotiate a formal end to the war.

[Walleye]

12. Hope springs, eternal and what's left of my human breast

[Ray Bruns]

11. Nope because Trump and Hegseth said this wasn't a war.

[Harker]

14. POLEs.

Prisoners of Little Excursion.

[David__77]

2. It's the US that's waging the illegal war of aggression.

[displacedvermoter]

3. And what is Trump going to threaten them with

to guarantee Geneva Convention treatment -- not sure Iran is a signatory, but you know what I mean -- of this crew? He has already threatened to bomb them into the "Stone Ages", so I imagine the only other greater threat would be to nuke them.

We are so fucked by these people....

[Walleye]

7. Well, we elect a rapist, we should expect to get fucked

[displacedvermoter]

9. Truth...

[David__77]

13. The US war secretary said such agreements are nonsense.

[Miguelito Loveless]

15. The Geneva Convention is "woke"

And we don’t believe in woke. We are “maximum war fighters” obliterating our enemies without mercy.

[gab13by13]

4. The Iranians are smarter than that,

they will not torture of publicly kill the pilots if they capture them. They may use them as shields though, put them inside a power plant.

[617Blue]

8. Malcolm Nance's YT channel has some great vid and analysis

Looks like C130 and choppers were searching in daylight.

[niyad]

17. What flavour pizza do you like?

[niyad]

19. Enjoy your no-doubt-brief stay.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Who Is Rooting For The Bad Guys?

Making things up is not a convincing retort.

[niyad]

21. Apparently anybody who doesn't agree that the clusterfuck is a "great mission".

[niyad]

22. Ahh, thank you, MIRT!!!

[Emile]

23. After an alert and discussion with the hosts, locking.

This is a duplicate of the same news story posted earlier.

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143643270