Iraqi mrlitia claimed to shot down one of them
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tyler@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Crashed or was shot down?
mrdown@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
tyler@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Sorry I was being facetious. They are all getting shot down, but it makes the American military look inept so they’re saying “crashed” and other similar things rather than “shot down”.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
I dunno, a crash without getting attacked sounds even more inept to me.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Same ineptness, but it makes the Iranians more dangerous and the US less invincible.
tyler@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Good point.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 15 hours ago
It was a crash with a missile.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
The amount of denying makes me think it was attacked. They lied about casualties multiple times at this point so it wouldn’t surprise me if it comes out later this was a lie too.
tyler@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Or hegseth demanded the pilot send him dick pics while flying and caused the crash.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I hate how this is an actual real possibility in this timeline.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Some AI YouTuber in 2040 long after humanity ceased to exist: it was shot down.