War: US fighter jet shot down over Iran

A United States combatant craft has been brought down implicit Iranian territory, marking the archetypal confirmed nonaccomplishment of a US pitchy to Iranian aerial defences since the escalation of the ongoing conflict, according to American officials and Iranian authorities media reports.

Multiple US sources confirmed the incidental to CNN, corroborating claims by Iranian outlets that the craft was intercepted and destroyed by the country’s aerial defence systems.

The aircraft, wide identified successful reports and circulating images arsenic an F-15E Strike Eagle, reportedly crashed successful oregon astir Khuzestan Province successful southwestern Iran, astir 470 kilometres from the capital, Tehran.

Footage geolocated adjacent a span implicit the Karoon River showed low-altitude subject craft movements, believed to beryllium portion of search-and-rescue oregon enactment operations successful the aftermath of the incident.

US forces are said to person initiated a combat hunt and rescue (CSAR) ngo involving craft and helicopters to find the crew, believed to dwell of 2 pilots.

Iranian authorities media, including Fars News and Tasnim News Agency, reported that archetypal attempts to find immoderate ejected unit had not yielded results.

One broadcast connected Fars News indicated that a reward had been announced for accusation starring to the seizure of immoderate “enemy aviator oregon pilots,” raising concerns...