An Iranian soldier holds one of the fragments of the downed F-35. X/ @N_fozz
The Revolutionary Guard criticizes White House’s fake narrative.
On Friday, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed that the country’s advanced aerospace defense system shot down a second U.S. F-35 fighter jet in central Iran.
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The aircraft, which belonged to the Lakenheath squadron, was completely destroyed after the impact. Officials have no information on the pilot’s condition because the jet disintegrated upon crashing.
The Revolutionary Guard released several photos of the wreckage. In one image, the IRGC issued a sharp criticism of the White House’s lies.
“These days, the Americans’ narrative guidelines are: calling a lack of targets ‘dynamic operations’; presenting defeat as ‘the end of the mission’; portraying discord as ‘a change of command’; selling the need for an agreement out of weakness as a ‘smart deal’; and renaming regional withdrawal as ‘redefining priorities’,” the Guard said.
BREAKING – DEVELOPING:
American fighter jet shot down, and Iran is trying to capture the pilot while the U.S. launches a massive search and rescue operation
Seems Iran shot down an F-15 fighter jet, and is trying to captured the pilot
A massive American search operation is… pic.twitter.com/bxvpeYZsyT
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 3, 2026
Early Friday, the U.S. military activated a search-and-rescue operation for the pilot, who has not been located.
In early March, Iranian armed forces also shot down an F-35 stealth fighter using previously undisclosed, domestically produced air defense technology.
That shootdown caused surprise and confusion among U.S. military analysts, who had considered the F-35 nearly undetectable by conventional radar.
This second downing of an F-35 confirms that Iran has deciphered the electronic signature of fifth-generation U.S. aircraft, dramatically altering the balance of power in regional airspace.
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Sources: EFE – Sputnik
Did you read they were shipping these things without radars 🥴 ppl were saying they rely on the AWACS to strike in that scenario, strikes me as ridiculous. US is really not delivering next-gen stuff, let alone at scale like needed