One of two US crew members rescued after F-15E jet shot down over Iran - Sopuli

The really frustrating beyond this war being a pointless tragedy is that the water is getting seriously muddied here. The media will claim this is proof the US does not have Air Dominance, which is definitely true in a very real way, obviously, but also the US has already dropped a cataclysmic amount of bombs on Iran and run roughshod over the entire country destroying everything like a human hurricane of senseless evil. The US established enough Air Dominance to do that, which is more Air Dominance than any nation could ever need if their objective isn’t simply to create and sustain a failed state. The reason jets are getting shot down now is that they are flying over Iran so much that they are bound to get hit, people who aren’t in Iran I don’t think are really accurately understand the scale of the humanitarian crisis created by this massive of a bombing campaign in highly populated areas and against highly necessary civilian infrastructure. If Ukraine had anywhere near the amount of decisive ability to project this kind of airpower into russia, the war would already be over which is one of the reasons the Iran War is such a backhanded insult to Ukraine from the US.