A U.S. Air Force officer whose F-15E was shot down over Iran has revealed how he prayed while plummeting toward the ground at up to 100 mph before surviving a broken back and other injuries — and 50 hours behind enemy lines as Iranian forces hunted him — in an ordeal he described as a “modern-day miracle.”
An Indian businessman allegedly passed himself off as an operative of the CIA to close defense deals with Indonesia.
A U.S. fighter pilot who survived being shot down over Iran and was later rescued in a dramatic special operations mission reported seeing a bizarre, jellyfish-like formation of Iranian drones moving in unison moments before his F-15 went down, according to a report published Tuesday that has fueled new concerns about previously unknown capabilities in Tehran’s drone arsenal.
Israel secretly established a covert military outpost deep in Iraq’s western desert to support its aerial campaign against Iran — positioning special forces and rescue teams near the battlefield — and reportedly launched airstrikes against Iraqi troops that nearly uncovered the facility during the opening phase of the operation, according to a report published Saturday.
President Donald Trump said the administration would seek to identify the person who leaked that a second U.S. airman remained missing in Iran during the rescue mission and would tell the media outlet that published the information to reveal the source on national security grounds.
The United States executed what officials described as “one of the most challenging and complex” rescue missions in the history of U.S. special operations to recover a downed Air Force officer deep inside Iran.
President Donald Trump is calling the rescue of the second airman from the downed F-15E in Iran on Saturday an “Easter miracle.”
U.S. special operations forces rescued the second crew member from a downed F-15E fighter jet in Iran after a “heavy firefight,” successfully extracting both airmen and all rescue personnel from the country, according to multiple reports.
The U.S. military pressed ahead Saturday in a frantic search for a missing pilot over a remote area in southwestern Iran, after the Middle Eastern country shot down an American warplane and called on people to turn the pilot in, promising a reward.
President Donald Trump reportedly stated the shooting down of a United States F-15E over Iran would not affect ongoing negotiations.
F-15E Strike Eagle has been shot down, and both American and Iranian forces are scrambling to find the crew first, unconfirmed reports claim.
Three U.S. F-15E pilots inadvertently shot down in the first days of Operation Epic Fury are already back on the front line and bombing Iran.
Three F-15E Strike Eagle fighters were shot down by an ally while engaging Iranian aircraft, all pilots ejected safely and recovered.
An airman was ejected recently from an F-15D Eagle flight before the aircraft took off from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts.
US President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday approved more than $20 billion in new weapons sales to Israel, brushing aside pressure from rights activists to stop arms deliveries over the death toll in Gaza.
During his Tuesday speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden again threatened his political enemies via the mention of F-15 jets.
Japan’s air force recently deployed F-15 fighter jets to intercept two Russian nuclear-capable Tupolev Tu-95MS bombers flying over the Sea of Japan, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
During a meandering question and answer session in Hudson, New Hampshire, Joe Biden told gun owners that their AK-47s are no match for the government’s F-15s.
Domestically designed and built Iran fighter jets were showcased in the skies over Tehran during a military parade Thursday marking National Army Day. The twin-seated Kowsar — modelled after the American F-5 fighter jet which first flew in 1959 – has already been hailed as the future of the country’s air force.
