{"id":47954,"date":"2026-04-02T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:08:36","slug":"how-to-take-down-a-us-f-35-over-iran-chinese-engineers-prophetic-tutorial-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47954\/","title":{"rendered":"How to take down a US F-35 over Iran? Chinese engineer\u2019s prophetic tutorial goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A striking phenomenon is emerging from China as the Middle East conflict presses on: technically skilled civilians are volunteering their expertise online to help Iran counter US military might, without seeking payment or official backing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trend was vividly illustrated on March 14, when a detailed tutorial on taking down America\u2019s F-35 appeared on Chinese social media and went viral.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Created by the account \u201cLaohu Talks World\u201d and subtitled in Persian, the video meticulously explained how Iran could use its low-cost systems to target and destroy the advanced stealth fighter.<\/p>\n<p>It drew tens of millions of views. Five days after the post, on March 19, Iran claimed it had <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3347217\/us-f-35-hit-suspected-iranian-fire-forced-make-emergency-landing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">struck a US F-35<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran\u2019s primary crude export terminal. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b4639545-8a6c-48b8-81be-27cc39327748_64f10534.jpg\" title=\"A view of Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran\u2019s primary crude export terminal. Photo: AFP\"\/>A view of Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran\u2019s primary crude export terminal. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Across Chinese social media, many people with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have created and shared content aimed at helping Iran\u2019s war effort. Some appear to possess expert knowledge of military equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A striking phenomenon is emerging from China as the Middle East conflict presses on: technically skilled civilians are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[262,19712,2092,34,2601,19709,49,19710,39,4330,19708,153,19707,66,19711],"class_list":{"0":"post-47954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-douyin","10":"tag-f-35","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-kharg-island","13":"tag-laohu-talks-world","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-northwestern-polytechnical-university","16":"tag-persian-gulf","17":"tag-south-china-morning-post","18":"tag-stem","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-military-base","21":"tag-us-sanctions","22":"tag-us-stealth-fighter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116333858426292629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}