The Israeli Air Force has released footage showing one of its F-35 Lightning II jets shooting down an Iranian military aircraft over Tehran on Wednesday, marking a rare air-to-air combat engagement involving a piloted aircraft.
The 16-second video, posted on the Israeli Air Force’s official X account, shows the F-35, known in Israeli service as the ‘Adir’, intercepting and destroying a Yak130 operated by the Iranian Air Force.
The Israeli Army said this was the “first shootdown in history of a manned fighter aircraft by an F-35 ‘Adir’ fighter jet”.
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