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uticusyesterday at 1:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's breaking news...meaning it may be inaccurate. CENTCOM certainly is saying it's false [0]. But there are enough signs of it being genuine, to be concerning at this stage.

Flying low over Iran at this point is planned, expensive "standoff" munitions were planned to give way to more accurate and less expensive munitions once air superiority was reached - which U.S. has been claiming has happened for a while now.

[0] https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039805134704660622


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ceejayozyesterday at 2:20 PM

> CENTCOM certainly is saying it's false…

Any time this administration cries "fake news" is probably a tell.

> Flying low over Iran at this point is planned…

But with C-130s and helos, in an area that just shot down a F-15? That's risky. One of the videos shows the C-130 deploying flares.

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ceejayozyesterday at 4:18 PM

Update: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/us-fighter-jet-went-ir...

> An F-15 fighter jet pilot has been rescued alive by the U.S. military after their aircraft went down over Iran, a U.S. official said Friday.

> White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the incident — the latest dramatic development in the war, now more than a month old.

CENTCOM lied.

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