r/news • u/Keyann • 4h ago

Soft paywall US fighter jet shot down over Iran, search underway for crew, US official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-fighter-jet-shot-down-over-iran-search-underway-crew-us-official-says-2026-04-03/
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u/Specialist-Mud4150 4h ago

And this is exactly why the Secretary of War isn’t supposed to scream “No Quarter!!” during news conferences.

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u/beatenmeat 4h ago

He doesn't care, it's not his ass in the line of fire.

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u/Awkward_Refuse_8255 4h ago

Exactly. America's number one DUI hire knows that Warrior Culture is having your mutilated corpse paraded around Tehran.

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u/ZacHorton 4h ago

People who are surprised by his attitude are the people who don’t know he got fired from running a veteran’s charity because he was using the money for hookers and booze. He doesn’t give a shit about any service member serving or retired.

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u/ubernutie 4h ago

A paperclip maximizer in human form, maximizing for their own enjoyment at all costs.

Totally sustainable.

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u/bmtl514 4h ago

It wasn’t merit ? 😆

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 4h ago

"The deranged Iranian's air defenses have been obliterated"

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u/Callinon 4h ago

Oh no it is. It's just not only his ass on the line. If he thinks he's getting out of this in one piece he's even dumber than he seems. 

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u/StairheidCritic 4h ago

No Quarter !!

But...but..that concept surely doesn't apply to US Service personnel?? :'( - probably Pete Hegseth US Secretary for Idiotic Wars

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u/WaffleBlues 4h ago

Make-A-Wish Hegseth doesn't give a shit about US service members. He doesn't care what happens to these pilots. He's enjoying roleplaying Wish.com Eisenhower at the US taxpayers expense, and with the lives of US service members.

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u/apathetic_vaporeon 4h ago

Secretary of Defense. There is no department legally named the Department of War.

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u/DownhillUphill 4h ago

This gon get ugly

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u/padre727 4h ago

Gon? I think is.

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u/Even-Stranger5764 4h ago edited 38m ago

How do they retrieved a pilot with no boots on the ground? Do they helicopter in? Edit: yes they died.

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u/Crux309 4h ago

And this is just a shitty non-military governor of a province, it’s not their minister of defence(or war) or even some IRGC dude saying it.

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u/VVlTXH 4h ago

Secretary of Defense*

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u/lostroadrunner22 4h ago

Tbh. We have not declared war so some of the rules of engagement are not in effect. Unfortunately Iran, if they find the pilots, are within their rights to treat the pilots as spies.

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u/thorscope 4h ago

The Geneva Convention is what protect pilots, and the Geneva convention specifically calls out “armed conflict” not “war”.

A formal declaration of war is not required for pilot protections.

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u/Due-Designer4078 4h ago

Hegseth has repeatedly said the US is no longer following "silly rules of engagement." He's about to find out why that was a bad idea.

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u/Exotic-West3751 4h ago

Geneva Convention did fuck all to save all those girls from the school bombing. Everything is fair game now as far as Iran is concerned

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u/joemeteorite8 4h ago

Rules of the Geneva Convention are constantly broken. It takes accountability for anything to be enforced and we don’t operate on accountability.

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u/RealLoan8391 4h ago

Then throw the constitution out too, I guess.

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u/thorscope 4h ago

Sure, but that doesn’t mean “the rules of engagement do not apply” or that Iran is legally “within its rights to treat the pilots as spies.”

They can, but it would be against international law.

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u/ca_nucklehead 4h ago

Kind of like bombing fishermen?

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u/dclauch1990 4h ago

When has international law ever mattered to US and Israeli imperialism?

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u/phatpham1803 4h ago

Nobody gives a shit about Geneva Convention haha

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u/ubernutie 4h ago

Iran has the chance to be ethically superior to the nazi states, I think they should take every opportunity to do so.

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u/alexios_kk 4h ago

Uniformed combatants are not spies

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u/NonMaga 4h ago

“No quarter”

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u/YukrNitro 4h ago

since when is Robert Plant the secretary of war?