{"id":369055,"date":"2026-08-08T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/369055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:20:12","slug":"iran-displays-wreckage-of-downed-us-and-israeli-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/369055\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran displays wreckage of downed US and Israeli aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t The downed US aircraft on display in Iran.
\nPress TV <\/p>\n

Iran is showing off some of the US and Israeli aircraft it has brought down during the almost six-month war in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n

State-run Press TV posted images on social media Friday of the remnants of a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet, several drones and what appear to be the engines of an MC-130J Commando special operations aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cImages of US-Israeli aircraft shot down by the IRGC Aerospace Force\u2019s newly developed air defense system,\u201d a caption reads, referring to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n

The F-15 and MC-130 wreckage are likely from the only incident where those two types of aircraft were lost in Iran. On April 3, an F-15 was hit<\/a> by anti-aircraft fire and its crew of two ejected.<\/p>\n

Both service members were eventually recovered by US Special Operations forces \u2014 but during the rescue operation<\/a>, two of the four-engine MC-130s got stuck on a makeshift desert airstrip and had to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

As for the drone wreckage on display, reports say the US lost a number of the unmanned aircraft during the war, but the Pentagon has not confirmed any specifics.<\/p>\n

The reports from Press TV did not include the location of where wreckage is displayed, but it appears to be in a large underground bunker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The downed US aircraft on display in Iran. Press TV Iran is showing off some of the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[1982,176,63392,2057,12842,592,1993],"class_list":["post-369055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-egypt","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-tehran","tag-us","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117060097097819689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}