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    Die USA mussten zwei ihrer eigenen Flugzeuge zerstören, nachdem sie einen F-15-Piloten aus dem Iran gerettet hatten


    Die USA mussten zwei ihrer eigenen Flugzeuge zerstören, nachdem sie einen F-15-Piloten aus dem Iran gerettet hatten

    https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/05/8028831/

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    1. Sea-Present-8543 on

      From the article:

      Two transport aircraft tasked with evacuating the special forces unit were unable to take off from a remote base in Iran. These aircraft were destroyed to prevent them from falling into enemy hands, sources said. The special forces therefore departed on three additional aircraft that were sent for them.

    2. SwvellyBents on

      Hmmmmm, we had to leave some broken helos behind in Iran?

      I think I’ve seen this movie before.

    4. Secret-Temperature71 on

      The War Zone is reporting 2 C-130 were abandoned and destroyed to keep from falling into enemy hands.

      Off the top if my head airframe losses/damaged to date

      2 – C-130 left behind/destroyed

      1 – A-10 Warthog hit in rescue mission, crashed

      2 – helicopters hit with small arm fire

      1 – F-15 crashed

      1 – KC-135 tanker crashed, 6 dead

      1 – KC-135 tanker severely damaged in collision with above

      5 – KC-135 tankers damaged in missile strike

      3 – F-15 friendly fire

      1 – AWACS aerial command and control destroyed on the ground with missile

      1 – AWACS damaged in above incident

      1 – CH-57 heavy lift helo damaged/destroyed in drone strike

      10 to 12 – MQ-9 Reaper drones shot down

      Missing anything?

    5. Wa3zdog on

      Given the situation, it’s actually worth it from a broader perspective. The aircraft don’t fall into enemy hands and the airman isn’t captured which would have been huge political leverage (worth more than a few planes).

    6. GreyClay on

      So the one F-15E being hit directly led to 7 other aircraft being damaged, at least 5 of which are irreparably destroyed.

      There was an A-10 also shot down, two Blackhawks being hit and damaged, causing injuries to both crews, two C-130s being blown up and also 2 Little Birds being blown up.

    8. OptiPath on

      Kudos to US military for not leaving their brothers and sisters behind. Can’t imagine how intense and dangerous it must have been for the rescue inside Iran. Glad he is safe 🙏

    9. Loki-L on

      The US had to abandon hercules transporter in Iran during a rescue mission?

      What year is it again?

    10. musty_mage on

      As long as you’re in the US military, they’ll literally spend hundreds of millions to get you back, but once you’re discharged and back in the US you can starve on the street and no one gives a fuck.

    11. TriXter69 on

      I don’t understand why in Afghanistan they left all the equipment to the taliban if they could’ve just destoryed it

    14. IronyElSupremo on

      Destroying “high tech” equipment, in danger of being hauled, is actually the norm for US and other advanced militaries since the Vietnam War.

      Not so much denying a trophy as denying picking apart design and technology. Of course the tech has to be there. There’s displayed chunks of B-52 (late 1940s design actually)in present day Vietnam, but the U.S. was going to replace the B-52 with the B-70 Valkyrie untitled latter was cancelled, then the B-1, B-2

    15. TrekRider911 on

      „Delta Force, blowing up American planes on the ground in Iran since 1979.“

    17. atomkraft on

      Ah, history certainly rhymes. This has flavors of when Roman troops abandoned Inchtuthil fortress (Scotland, ~87 AD). Rather than let a hoard of iron nails fall into the hands of Caledonian troops to forge into weapons, they were buried onsite and left forgotten for two millennia. 

    18. Vierenzestigbit on

      With how much losses they took for this I don’t think the fabled ‚grab the uranium‘ raid which some have predicted as an option would go well

    19. nagai on

      The US military is really an amazing organization, just imagine if all those resources and human ingenuity was used for a better purpose than arab murder safaris.

    21. Ok-Assistant-1761 on

      Good money can be made in the future to pay for it, lives can’t be replaced. I feel for everyone impacted but remember that service members may feel the same but are still willing to put themselves at personal risk.

    22. Purple_Squirrel_6883 on

      I see why they would go so far to save a soldier.

      – Preserve their reputation

      – Avoid a precedent where people stop signing up for the military which is a likely outcome if they abandon one of their own

      – Destroyed equipment can be rebuilt but not a reputation

      They care about their war machine more than anything as it props up the economy, which is their source of strength. They need to make the military as appealing as they can for the younger population, who will be more likely to join.

      As someone else said below, a dead soldier is a campaign issue and a dead vet is a statistic. One a soldier has served their purpose, they DGAF about them after.

    24. Mountain3Pointer on

      How many aircraft have we lost now? It’s insane that we are the biggest (supposedly most powerful) military in the world and it seems like we are losing jets and plans left and right on the daily.

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