https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116721129088347687
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2064389363992023539#m
Trump Says Iran Shot Down U.S. Helicopter & U.S. Will Respond
A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman Monday, with both crew members rescued within two hours and reported in stable condition by US authorities.
President Trump said on Truth Social that Iran shot down the helicopter and that the U.S. “must, of necessity, respond.”
Iran’s IRGC Navy claimed it shot down the aircraft after it ignored warnings, targeting it with fire from a speedboat. The Pentagon has not confirmed or denied the Iranian account. CENTCOM had said only that the cause is “under investigation.”
IOF-linked reporter Barak Ravid says that the US helicopter was hit by an Iranian drone.
https://xcancel.com/BarakRavid/status/2064392995118411871#m
So fucking much to unpack here, the drone “got the helicopter to crash”? That’s called shooting it down. and he’s… suggesting it could have been… accidental???
The thing you should know about Barak Ravid is that he served in IOF Unit 8200 at the age of 18. Unit 8200 is like Israel’s version of US NSA. He reports the things that US/Israel wants you to think. He’s employed by Axios.
Maybe the drone politely convinced it to crash?
The drone won the debate in the marketplace of ideas
We all know how much the US military loves to crash helicopters into other flying vehicles over bodies of water
I kinda think they do tho
Gotta keep Raytheon’s stock up and if they’re shot down by enemy forces then Line Goes Down
speculation on a couple of military forums that the apache was tasked with shooting down a shahed but did so within the blast radius of the explosion, so the “great military” may have stepped on a rake with this one. i don’t know if i believe it, but that could jibe with the tweet warning us pilots of “their own human error”
It was an unscheduled expedited landing incident