{"id":20939,"date":"2026-04-04T06:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-us-fighter-jets-hit-in-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:22:13","slug":"what-to-know-about-us-fighter-jets-hit-in-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-to-know-about-us-fighter-jets-hit-in-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about US fighter jets hit in Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. Air Force fighter jets were shot down on Friday, in two separate incidents, during operations against Iran.  The Iranian military downed an F-15E Strike Eagle over the country&rsquo;s airspace, prompting the crew to eject and igniting a search-and-rescue operation. The downing of the F-15 would mark the first time that Iran shot down&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5815865-us-air-force-jets-downed-iran\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. Air Force fighter jets were shot down on Friday, in two separate incidents, during operations against Iran. The Iranian military downed an F-15E Strike Eagle over the country&rsquo;s airspace, prompting the crew to eject and igniting a search-and-rescue operation. The downing of the F-15 would mark the first time that Iran shot down&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}