{"id":50635,"date":"2026-04-03T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/50635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:28:11","slug":"a-10-warthog-crashes-near-strait-of-hormuz-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/50635\/","title":{"rendered":"A-10 Warthog crashes near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II reportedly crashed Friday near the Strait of Hormuz at around the same time an F-15E fighter jet was shot down in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The A-10 pilot was subsequently rescued, two U.S. officials told The New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Iranian state media stated the A-10 was targeted in southern waters near the strait. <\/p>\n

Reports of the A-10 going down Friday followed confirmation that a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle<\/a> had been shot down by enemy fire. <\/p>\n

One of two F-15E crew members had reportedly been rescued as of Friday afternoon. A search for the second crew member was ongoing.<\/p>\n

Search-and-rescue efforts were launched in the immediate aftermath of the fighter jet crash, with videos circulating on social media appearing to show a low-flying U.S. Air Force HC-130 refueling a pair of HH-60G Pave Hawks over Iran.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday told Military Times \u201cthe president has been briefed\u201d on the downed U.S. F-15E fighter jet.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command have not yet responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media on Friday shared images<\/a> of aircraft debris alongside claims that Iran had downed a U.S. F-35 fighter jet.<\/p>\n

However, images of the aircraft\u2019s tailfin, specifically the red stripe on its vertical stabilizer, are consistent with markings used by the 494th Fighter Squadron<\/a>, 48th Fighter Wing, based at RAF Lakenheath.<\/p>\n

Iran also shared an image of an Advanced Concept Ejection Seat<\/a> allegedly from the shot down F-15E.<\/p>\n

The shoot-down of the F-15E marks the first time during Operation Epic Fury that a manned U.S. aircraft has been brought down by enemy fire.<\/p>\n

A U.S. F-35 fighter jet was reportedly hit by enemy fire<\/a> during a combat mission over Iran on March 19, but was able to make an emergency landing at a U.S. air base in the region.<\/p>\n

Six U.S. airmen were killed on March 12<\/a> when their KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during combat operations.<\/p>\n

On March 1, three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets<\/a> were shot down by a Kuwaiti F\/A-18 in a friendly fire incident. All six F-15 crew members ejected and were safely recovered.<\/p>\n

The A-10, meanwhile, has seen an increased role since the start of the Iran war<\/a>. The attack aircraft has joined maritime interdiction operations, among other missions, along the southern edges of the conflict, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fast-attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said last month. <\/p>\n

Military Times reporter Michael Scanlon contributed to this report. <\/p>\n

J.D. Simkins is Editor-in-Chief of Military Times and Defense News, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II reportedly crashed Friday near the Strait of Hormuz at around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20526,2539,2932,1530,2933,1529,1528,2930,7891,102,34,393,2540,212,101,343,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-50635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-a-10","9":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","10":"tag-circulated-army-times","11":"tag-circulated-defense-news","12":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","13":"tag-circulated-military-times","14":"tag-circulated-navy-times","15":"tag-dn-dnr","16":"tag-f-15","17":"tag-hormuz","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-islamic-republic","20":"tag-military-times","21":"tag-operation-epic-fury","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-us-military","24":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116342902347838316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50635","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=50635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}