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Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by Rover222 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #744
Rover222 wrote: post #193

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Given that 8 hours after your comment mainstream news sites are still reporting on ongoing SAR ops for the 2nd F-15 crewmember, it's likely those stories were false or confounded recovery of an A-10 pilot (also downed, separate incident) today. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/04/middle-ea... > (Live updates at The Guardian , as of 15 minutes prior to my own comment.)

Yeah i was wrong on that one, I think the X noise at the time as about the A-10 pilot that had been rescued.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

parineum wrote: post #961
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #940

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re generalising from some criminals to an entire civilian population. The parent generalized from military to military. There’s a slight difference in the two. Also, remember that it was the US who declared “no quarter”, not the Iranians.

> You’re generalising... Yep > The parent generalized Yep

Yes, please ignore the rest of those clauses.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

elendilm wrote: post #986
_DeadFred_ wrote: post #981

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The US rescored both crew from this aircraft while Iran's distributed architecture was dedicated to finding them within it's own country.

Losing 2 Black Hawks & 1 C-130 and others. Why are you deliberately trying to hide the details. And what has it to do with distributed architectures. You must not be good at what you do.

The 'superior' distributed architecture you hyped failed to capture even one of the two individuals in their territory, and failed to a non-distributed centralized world spanning synchronized architecture. I was simply pointing out your superior model failed. The model you hyped has no military benefit, it only serves to act as 'terror cells'. In this case lobing missiles at civilian shipping/civilian infrastructure in neighboring countries.

The important information was the US was able to rescue their people, loss of equipment doesn't matter. When we removed Bin Laden we lost an helicopter. Equipment loses that don't degrade our capabilities don't matter to the US.

There were ZERO American casualties in an operation in Iran, where the USA basically setup their own airfield, and Iranian forces tried to engage.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by paulryanrogers »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #653
paulryanrogers wrote: post #527

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Vote against liars who promise peace. Or demand representatives impeach them.

> Vote against liars who promise peace. By voting for a party that refuses to promise this? > Or demand representatives impeach them. We both know this will do nothing.

> By voting for a party that refuses to promise this?

Vote for the party least likely to actually start wars. Regardless of their words.

> We both know this will do nothing.

Pardon my imprecise language. I meant impeach, convict, and remove from power.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by rcbdev »

nmbrskeptix wrote: post #931

To unpoison y'alls priors, I want to remind HN that in the Kosovo air campaign, the Yugoslavs took out a nighthawk (F117) and an F16. They claimed more nighthawks that limped home. The F117 is a very stealthy plane, given its geometry (flat panels). Yet a 1960s radar with essentially no digital equipment took it out, largely using human intelligence and guerrilla tactics. Iran has modern digital electronics (to impro…

Thank you! I find it generally distasteful how often the media seems to memory hole the Yugoslav Wars. We've already seen this in 2022 with many pundits claiming that the war in Ukraine is the 'first armed military conflict in Europe since WW2' - which is just blatantly false in this context.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by laughing_man »

quantum_state wrote: post #946
bijowo1676 wrote: post #357

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a single AN/FPS-132 radar costs $1.1 bln, not $500m. And Iran stuck 17 of the CENCCOM sites hosting radars of all kinds across Qarar, Bahrain, Iraq, UAE, Saudi, Jordan, Israel, etc). Total cost is so much bigger, it is staggering. The whole CENTCOM is blind basically, as well as Iron Dome which relied on these radars - all blind now, in addition to long-range early nuke detection to protect CONUS is also blind. in ad…

These very expensive toys are the reasons of the to be $1.5 trillion DoW budget. It’s insane and not sustainable.

$1.5 trillion is the budget the Pentagon is requesting for next year. It's highly unlikely Congress will give them that much money.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by nielsbot »

gambutin wrote: post #418
nielsbot wrote: post #404

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Seems mainly unrelated to us killing unarmed soldiers. Unless you're arguing killing unarmed soldiers stops the murder of unarmed civilians somehow? (Which the US and Israel are now killing by the hundreds)

Be highly skeptical of any US claims that their mission is to spread democracy throughout the world. That's never been their goal. Remember the current regime in Iran ultimately exists because the British and the US ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by aucisson_masque »

Brybry wrote: post #759
aucisson_masque wrote: post #565

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> emergency landing https://preview.redd.it/f35-i-shot-down-in-iran-v0-0gdyroc4o... . I think it's ok to say that it crashed into the ground but the pilot survived. With 'emergency landing' people assume it was just a rough landing whereas the plane here is completely and utterly broken.

I don't know if you noticed but that's not a US F-35 (whole image is probably fake tbh) and the reddit post is from 2025.

Nop I didn't, assumed it was right since the reddit post where it was shown had many upvotes.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by dredmorbius »

Rover222 wrote: post #991
dredmorbius wrote: post #744

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that 8 hours after your comment mainstream news sites are still reporting on ongoing SAR ops for the 2nd F-15 crewmember, it's likely those stories were false or confounded recovery of an A-10 pilot (also downed, separate incident) today. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/04/middle-ea... > (Live updates at The Guardian , as of 15 minutes prior to my own comment.)

Yeah i was wrong on that one, I think the X noise at the time as about the A-10 pilot that had been rescued.

Ahead of your time, as the 2nd crew member was eventually rescued.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/us-rescues-airman-wh...>

Re: F-15E jet shot down over Iran

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Post by diordiderot »

nmbrskeptix wrote: post #963
diordiderot wrote: post #948

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> victim of foreign aggression Excuse us of being unsympathetic to the greatest state sponser of terrorism in history. The Muslim country all other Muslim countries love to hate. The only real theocracy left in the world. Wannabe North Korea. The country that killed 30,000 progressive protestors in a few days.

Nothing of what you said (all wrong, btw) is relevant to the fact we attacked first and getting our butts kicked. "The country that killed 30,000 progressive protestors in a few days." Ya, if you believe this you're poorly informed. Where does this number come from? Who sourced it? What is their relationship to Western powers? How are they able to count so many Iranians dying in dungeons so well? How about the logist…

> getting our butts kicked.

We live in completely different realities.

>Where does this number come from?

The Iranian Ministry of Health lol

> logistics of killing 30,000 people?

Guns

> apartheid state

Arab citizens of Israel have full rights. Unless you deny Palestinian statehood.

> Chief Rabbinate decides who can get married.

Only if Jewish.

> Don't crack the top ten

"Currently there are four countries designated under these authorities: Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Iran, and Syria."

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism

Syria and cuba should no longer count as they've collapsed

Nope all Sunni dislike them

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