{"id":86484,"date":"2026-03-03T02:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=86484"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:50:05","slug":"u-s-suffers-worst-day-of-air-losses-in-decades-as-iran-conflict-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/u-s-suffers-worst-day-of-air-losses-in-decades-as-iran-conflict-spirals\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Suffers Worst Day of Air Losses in Decades as Iran Conflict Spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Suffers Worst Day of Air Losses in Decades as Iran Conflict Spirals<\/a><\/h1>\n

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The Iran conflict is escalating, with the Trump administration desperate to keep a straight face on things as American casualties and losses begin mounting.<\/h2>\n

Today\u2019s major shock came when not one, not two, but an unprecedented\u00a0three<\/em>\u00a0American F-15E fighter jets were mysteriously shot down over Kuwait. Note the official US military report admits that Iranian aircraft had been engaging them at a time when \u201cair superiority\u201d was allegedly long established:<\/h2>\n
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But not everyone is convinced these were \u201cfriendly fire\u201d incidents. Iran announced it had downed the craft, which is at least plausible given that Kuwait is positioned well within reach of long-range S-300s.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Simplicius<\/a><\/h2>\n

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U.S. Suffers Worst Day of Air Losses in Decades as Iran Conflict Spirals   The Iran conflict is escalating, with the Trump administration desperate to keep a straight face on things as American casualties and losses begin mounting. Today\u2019s major shock came when not one, not two, but an unprecedented\u00a0three\u00a0American F-15E fighter jets were mysteriously…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5581,6853,17920,7561,2450,7683,3172,3176,5176,5971,17107,2933,5429,1286,17,65,18982,10173,19122],"tags":[5001,2281,1285,17338,17195,3829,10094],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86486,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86484\/revisions\/86486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}