An American F-15E Strike Eagle multi-role attack fighter jet has been successfully targeted and downed by the Iranian air defense systems.
In a statement on Thursday, the public relations wing of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed that the high-end fighter jet had been downed,
The statement added that the IRGC’s modern aerospace defense systems targeted the fighter jet on Wednesday morning on the outskirts of the country’s southwestern borders.
Some sections of Israeli media had earlier reported on the downing of an advanced American fighter jet over the Iranian skies.
The fate of the pilot is not known yet.
It comes amid the continued American-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has claimed over 1,000 lives, mostly civilians, so far.
Iranian retaliatory operations, under the banner True Promise 4, have targeted Israeli military and intelligence deep inside the occupied territories as well as American occupation military bases scattered across the West Asia region.
The US government remains tight-lipped about the real death toll of its soldiers in the Iranian strikes, even though Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani, on Wednesday said over 500 American soldiers have been killed in the first few days of the imposed war.
The US, along with the Israeli regime, launched an unprovoked aggression against Iran on Saturday, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, as well as some top-ranking military commanders.
The Iranian leadership has vowed to retaliate with full force against the aggressors.
Before the downing of the F-15E Strike Eagle multi-role attack fighter jet, a few other US fighter jets were also downed on the border with Kuwait earlier this week.
A number of Israeli military’s Hermes drones have also been downed in the past five days.
