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A second United States Air Force combat aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday as rescue teams continued searching for a missing crew member from a downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to two U.S. officials cited by The New York Times.
The second aircraft, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and its pilot was safely rescued, the officials said.
The crash occurred around the same time that an F-15E was shot down over Iran, where one crew member has already been recovered and search teams continue looking for the second.
I wonder how badly this could have gone had Iran’s military been at their prime.
They used to have a seriously competent airforce which they could have easily transitioned into modern Chinese tech had they invested into it.
Even now without it, they have a bloody history of a war with Iraq in which they also had to defend with a terrible lack of parts and supplies.
I still feel bad that their successful hit on an F-35 didn’t result in a kill considering they had to hit it at close range with an IR missile.
The US military is also arguably not at it’s prime now either - but I’d say Iran is much better equipped now than it was a decade ago (when Trump nixed Obama’s nuclear agreement).
The US military has been reporting abysmal defense readiness scores since trump’s first term.
After this, it will be in the gutters of the abyss…