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0 pointsdmix2mo ago0 comments

It's pretty normal for planes to go down in a war. They've flown 5000+ sorties, it's a pretty huge accomplishment this is the first one lost over Iran. Especially considering all of the last decade's speculation about how tough attacking Iran would be.

You'll never be able to fully suppress all of their manpads. Even if you destroy the bulk of their air defence network.

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verdverm2mo ago

First to go down in Iran, but a surprising amount of attritions thus far

- 3x F-15 friendly fire

- 2x KC-130 refuel mid air collision (1 loss, 1 damaged)

- 1x F-35 damaged

- 1x AEWACs base strike

- 3x KC-130 base strike (same)

- 1x F-15 (this one)

2-3 a week is not great for the greatest military, more than half attributable to Iran.

With 300+ US casualties, that's ~10/day, a fatality every ~2 days. No boots on the ground (that we know of, sure there are some elite ops in the country)

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throwaway274482mo ago

Most of those sorties haven't been in Iranian air space. That's the entire point of standoff munitions.

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