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USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by PMForce(op): 6:39pm On Mar 19

A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely and the incident is under investigation.

“The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added. “This incident is under investigation.”

The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million.

The US has lost other aircraft in the war thus far, though none known to have been hit by enemy fire. Three US F-15 fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, with all six crew members ejecting safely. And last week, a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, though the cause is still unclear. The US military said the incident was “not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.”

All six crew members aboard the KC-135 were killed.

Questions remain about the timeline of the conflict and what could come next. CNN previously reported that a Marine Expeditionary Unit was heading to the region; a US official confirmed it is the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit out of Okinawa, and the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group. The USS Tripoli was seen approaching Singapore earlier this week.

As the war has nearing the end of its third week, senior US officials continue to claim widespread success in its campaign against Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday morning that the US is “winning decisively” and that Iran’s air defenses have been “flattened.”

This story has been updated with additional reporting.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/f-35-damage-iran-war

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by HacheNoire: 6:42pm On Mar 19

Damn! They missed catching that thing! Would have been a big catch!

That would have been a world record! First country to catch F35!

Anyways, it is still a world record! First country to hit a F35

Iran is showing the world that, nothing is invisible!

Iran should put in more effort. If they cannot catch the F35, they should aim for the B2 Spirit. That will be a bigger and world record catch!

In other news, Iran has successfully installed Christmas light on Israel’s refinery.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by madridguy(m): 6:43pm On Mar 19

For the first time in HISTORY, an American F-35 jet has been hit.

Trump said today all of Iran’s defenses are destroyed.

Iranian air defenses are hitting our best jets.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by HacheNoire: 6:45pm On Mar 19

madridguy:
For the first time in HISTORY, an American F-35 jet has been hit.

Trump said today all of Iran’s defenses are destroyed.

Iranian air defenses are hitting our best jets.

😂🤣😂🤣

He is luring those dumb European countries to get their fleets into the strait. Looking for life’s to sacrifice.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Moroccoguy: 6:53pm On Mar 19

The war never start.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by QuinQQ: 6:55pm On Mar 19*

Moroccoguy:
The war never start.

Right. The war hasn't even started and all Iranian leaders and their desgnated successors are DEAD! grin

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by madridguy(m): 7:05pm On Mar 19

They won't go there, they're just doing the media paparazi to gather some cheap attention.
They all came to the Red Sea and ran away against the Houthis

HacheNoire:
😂🤣😂🤣

He is luring those dumb European countries to get their fleets into the strait. Looking for life’s to sacrifice.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by richeeyo(m): 7:12pm On Mar 19*

Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by richeeyo(m): 7:12pm On Mar 19

madridguy:
They won't go there, they're just doing the media paparazi to gather some cheap attention.
They all came to the Red Sea and ran away against the Houthis

Don't be stupid that's ur wildest dreams

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by richeeyo(m): 7:14pm On Mar 19

The A10 warthog which is about to retire has enter combat in Iran and it has not been shot down yet, na F35 dem go come down
Propaganda doesn't win wars 😂😂😂😂

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Baxilexi(m): 7:16pm On Mar 19*

@seun, kindly confirm if we all read the same information on threads. I believe there’s a delusional bug that translates your contents to fit into a narrative for a select few.

Time and again F35 have crashed in the US but you must understand that nothing known to man can catch those machines also, some have wingman drones.

I have questions for pro-IRGC madness. Let’s say Iran destroys Saudi, Qatar and UAE;

What would be their relationship with these nations afterwards? They’re Persians and the others are Arabs.
How would they rebuild their nation in complete isolation?
If their hope is China and Russia do they believe it would be done for free?
The Arabs chose civilization and modernization over radicalism, but trust me after this war all Arab countries will enter the arms race and I hope Iran would be happy with a heavily militarized Middle East, then they wouldn’t need the US to destroy them.

Arabs are royalty and would never take orders on the type of Islam to practice from Persian mullahs… NEVER! They love luxury and affluence!

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Penguin2: 7:20pm On Mar 19

Trump should charge CNN for treason.

Because tell me why they have consistently focused on the negatives since the war in Iran began.

Is that how deep they are in the pocket of LGTV mad cows that they don’t see anything good in whatever Trump does?

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by P1PrinceKT(m): 7:24pm On Mar 19

Baxilexi:
@seun, kindly confirm if we all read the same information on threads. I believe there’s a delusional bug that translates your contents to fit into a narrative for select few.

Time and again F35 have crashed in the US but you must understand that nothing known to man can catch those machines also, some have wingman drones.

I have questions for pro-IRGC madness. Let’s say Iran destroys Saudi, Qatar and UAE;

What would be their relationship with these nations afterwards? They’re Persians and the others are Arabs.
How would they rebuild their nation in complete isolation?
If their hope is China and Russia do they believe it would be done for free?
The Arabs chose civilization and modernization over radicalism, but trust me after this war all Arab countries will enter the arms race and I hope Iran would be happy with a heavy militarized Middle East, then they wouldn’t need the US to destroy them.

Arabs are royalty and would never take orders on the type of Islam to practice from Persian mullahs… NEVER! They love luxury and affluence!

after this war all Arab countries will enter the arms race and I hope Iran would be happy with a heavy militarized Middle East Logically, Iran is helping Arabs (Muslims) to defend on themselves, not hypocritical America, it's obvious to anybody unless if deaf and dumb, that The US is using Arabs to defend Israel, after which they will come after them (Arabs) for their expansionist project (Grater Israel).

I don't know if what I'm telling you is making sense to you, or you just need enough time to comprehend.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Sheuns(m): 7:25pm On Mar 19

For context. F35s are fifth gen fighters and are very hard to be detected by radars or even locked in by missiles.

It’s an impressive feat if an Iranian missile can manage to hit this fighter.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Penguin2: 7:25pm On Mar 19

Baxilexi:
@seun, kindly confirm if we all read the same information on threads. I believe there’s a delusional bug that translates your contents to fit into a narrative for select few.

Time and again F35 have crashed in the US but you must understand that nothing known to man can catch those machines also, some have wingman drones.

I have questions for pro-IRGC madness. Let’s say Iran destroys Saudi, Qatar and UAE;

What would be their relationship with these nations afterwards? They’re Persians and the others are Arabs.
How would they rebuild their nation in complete isolation?
If their hope is China and Russia do they believe it would be done for free?
The Arabs chose civilization and modernization over radicalism, but trust me after this war all Arab countries will enter the arms race and I hope Iran would be happy with a heavy militarized Middle East, then they wouldn’t need the US to destroy them.

Arabs are royalty and would never take orders on the type of Islam to practice from Persian mullahs… NEVER! They love luxury and affluence!

My dear you can’t help but shudder at the calibre of humans we share a country with.

Seeing people supporting Iran on this platform was a big surprise to me honestly.

And it just made me understand that apart from rigging, the ijiots ruining our lives in this country have people who vote for them.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by chopnaira: 7:34pm On Mar 19

Lol. These Iranians are no pushovers..
Do not underestimate your opponent.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by YeyeGbami: 7:34pm On Mar 19

Isreal will achieve its goals either using yankee to do the job or poking iran itself to continue bombing the gulf.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by eepeepook: 7:36pm On Mar 19

Until troops are put on the ground, I will never take this “war” serious.

Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by ARISHEM: 7:36pm On Mar 19*

One fighter jet $100 million dollars. huh

If they dash us that jet I can bet that it will go missing and committee will be established to probe it

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by planetx: 7:38pm On Mar 19

They have done their own, now the Iranian stage of the war to inflict pain is just starting, they have been preparing for this war for 25 years. They are prepared to fight till next year, this people have misread the will of Iran and their capabilities to fight on till victory. Like I have been saying from day one, this war will not end until Iran impose a strategic defeat not a military defeat but a strategic defeat on both America and Israel.

You can believe whatever you want, but this will not be a quick war like they thought they will get and let me tell you they are not running out of missiles like the orange retard told you, I doubt if they have even used 5% of their missile stockpile and those missile factories are buried deep underground, so Iran hold all the card and can easily torpedo the global economy.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Bluntguy: 7:39pm On Mar 19

It's one of the negativities of war. Some countries' own for done crash.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by 89green: 7:40pm On Mar 19

Better shooting , abi no be so grin

Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by marlow1962(m): 7:40pm On Mar 19

QuinQQ:
Right. The war hasn't even started and all Iranian leaders and their desgnated siluccessors are DEAD!

Naso una talk for Russian Ukraine own o grin

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by gigabyte13: 7:41pm On Mar 19

They have money for wars not for welfare
Imagine $100m for just one F-15 warplane

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by franchasofficia: 7:41pm On Mar 19

Forget, Israel is a country operating under the coverage of a supernatural power.

Why did I said this you may ask?

Since the 12 day war between Israel and Iran some months back, Israel have never lost a single war plane or fighter jet to Iran.

None of Israel's fighter jets have been shot down by Iran or Hezbollah or Hamas or Houthi terrorists despite the fact that Israel have completed more than 3,000 bombings and missions in Iran, etc using fighter jets.

If una like, take my words, if you like don't but one thing is for sure; Israel is a phenomenal nation operating under the coverage of an unseen supernatural power.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Bimpe29(m): 7:42pm On Mar 19

HacheNoire:
Damn! They missed catching that thing! Would have been a big catch!

That would have been a world record! First country to catch F35!

Anyways, it is still a world record! First country to hit a F35

Iran is showing the world that, nothing is invisible!

Iran should put in more effort. If they cannot catch the F35, they should aim for the B2 Spirit. That will be a bigger and world record catch!

In other news, Iran has successfully installed Christmas light on Israel’s refinery.

A world record it is for reference purposes.

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Blackdisciple(m): 7:42pm On Mar 19

Trump earlier said they know that they will also recieve a blow but the fight will go on... So it is not surprising cos this is a fight...

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Willie2015: 7:43pm On Mar 19

Moroccoguy:
The war never start.

Isreal used 4 million cluster bombs in Lebanon war

They are yet to even use a single cluster bomb in this Iran war....

With all their stockpiles ...

I just wonder who wan block cluster bombs for Iran

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Re: USA F-35 Fighter Jet Shot By Iranian Missile - CNN by Rayjnr: 7:45pm On Mar 19

Lost Vietnam war and about to loose the Iran war ?

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