Tuesday, March 03, 2026

3 F-15 Strike Eagles in Kuwait 'mistakenly shot down'

The U.S. military said on Monday that Kuwait "mistakenly shot down" thee American F-15E Strike Eagles during a combat mission as Iran attacked the country.

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Video of an 🇺🇸 F-15 falling out of the sky in Kuwait was just shared by BBC verify The pilots appear to have ejected, and were seen the back of a car

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-- The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) Mar 2, 2026 at 12:46 AM

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The U.S. military said on Monday that Kuwait "mistakenly shot down" thee American F-15E Strike Eagles during a combat mission as Iran attacked the country.

Those pilots are woke for getting shot down.

~ Pete Kegsbreath ~

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-02 06:47 AM

Glad our aircrew is OK.

The cost of a single F-15E Strike Eagle is approximately $70 to $80 million each.

No world class universal healthcare for Americans like enjoyed by the residents of Israel, Germany, Canada, Taiwan, the UK, Greenland, and tiny Albania, but billions of dollars for a war that won't help a farmer in Iowa, a truck driver in Pennsylvania, a mechanic in Georgia, a mailman in Michigan, a school teacher in the Bronx, a firefighter in Illinois, or a nurse in Ohio.


The Texas primary is tomorrow and young master James Talarico (D) holds a four point lead over Jasmine "AIPAC" Crockett (D-TX-30) in their contest for the US Senate.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 07:12 AM

Dummkopf Trumpf referred to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and President George H.W. Bush (R) as "losers" because they were shot down in battle. (4 Sep 2020)

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 07:32 AM

You've got to be effing chitting me.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-02 07:57 AM

"The cost of a single F-15E Strike Eagle is approximately $70 to $80 million each"

The loss of three is a disaster.

War is always a roll of the dice.

You'd have thought that George W. Trump had done all that he could to prove that to us.

Now comes Donald W. Bush.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-02 08:01 AM

"Donald W. Bush"

Oooof!

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 08:40 AM

A single $30,000 drone blew up a $1,000,000,000 radar installation

Oh well it's just money

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-02 08:42 AM

Mission ------------------

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-02 08:44 AM

Every day the number of interceptor munitions gets used up. How long before they run low allowing a lot of drones to get through? The wide range of Iranian targets is very worrisome. No military in the world can defend everywhere

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-02 09:00 AM

How long before they run low allowing a lot of drones to get through?

#9 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Turns out that Donald W. Bush started this war with low munitions stocks.

And he, um, knew about that beforehand.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-02 09:28 AM

And yet, even this morning, Donald W. Bush is peaking of "boots on the ground" in Iran.

Boots on the ground? To do what exactly?

And how many boots? Of memory serves it took George W. Trump almost a year to build an invasion of Kuwait.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-02 09:30 AM

Ding ding ding ding.

Zed raises the salient point

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-02 09:41 AM

Remember we actually had allies against Iraq Iran is far larger in population and size and Iran is mostly mountainous

Meaning boots in ground is not going to happen

Which begs the question

What is rhe goal?

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-02 09:43 AM

"The cost of a single F-15E Strike Eagle is approximately $70 to $80 million each"

$110 million per plane when fully equipped for combat.

But it's *OPM. So no biggie.

(*Other Peoples Money.)

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 09:53 AM

Thanks for the clarification, Marine.

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#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 10:29 AM

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious... It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

"There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights... Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple."

-Marine Major General Smedley Butler (1881"1940), one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 10:51 AM

When I have to go to war I channel Chesty Puller.

When I talk about war I channel Smedley Butler.

Semper Fi

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 10:54 AM

Two great generals.

General Mattis fits the mold too, don't he?

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 11:02 AM

General Mattis fits the mold too, don't he?

#18 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

Indeed. A brave man. An intelligent man. He spoke truth to power. Which is why he could not work for a lying moron like Trumpy.

Now our President is only surrounded by ass kissing sycophants.

As history has shown over and over that never ends well.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 11:19 AM

$110 million per plane when fully equipped for combat.

So one BART bathroom?

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-02 12:00 PM


"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious... It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
-Marine Major General Smedley Butler 1940.

Butler obviously had never heard of NGO's.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-02 12:02 PM

---- off imbecile.

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-02 01:20 PM

Butler obviously had never heard of NGO's.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut

Of course, this stupid pile of s*&^ would simp for this war.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-02 02:46 PM

It must suck to be an American fighter pilot and know that your commander-in-chief only likes pilots who don't get shot down.

~ Adam Parkhomenko ~

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-02 03:18 PM

The Kuwaitis getting a little payback for Bush greenlighting the invasion by Iraq?

#25 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-02 04:06 PM

Unlike the three fifteen year old girls Trump raped on Epstein Island.

That was no accident.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 11:13 AM

Yeah lets put a drunk fox news christofascist self loathing closeted homosexual moron in charge of the military.

What could go wrong?

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 01:23 PM


Yeah lets put a drunk fox news christofascist self loathing closeted homosexual moron in charge of the military.

What could go wrong?

#27 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Its going better than the last time the US invaded Iran, so there's that ...

#28 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-03 02:17 PM

CSAMRUNT is giddy over the slaughter of 150 Iranian schoolgirls.

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-03 02:29 PM

Its going better than the last time the US invaded Iran, so there's that ...

#28 | Posted by oneironaut

Trump could drop a nuke and you'd make excuses for it and find some extremely weak false equivilance.

#30 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 03:38 PM

3 obsolete F-15s for the entire Iranian leadership is a cost effective trade.

#31 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-03 05:06 PM

Three American F-15s for $100/bbl oil is an even better trade.
Signed,
Putin

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 05:15 PM

Russian oil trading at $22/bbl to India.

Double the global oil price, let them sell at market value, and they're still -$200 million a year for what Ukraine costs.

3 F-15s is cheap.

#33 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-03 05:55 PM

3 F-15s is cheap.
#33 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Oh ----!

Didn't realize you were a billionaire.

Why are you wasting time here on the DR when you could be at MaraLago raping 14 year olds?

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 06:05 PM

We could ask the Ukraine for some dough, we sent them a couple hundred billion. Of course a lot of that never made it to the Ukraine. It was laundered back into Democrat pockets.

#35 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-03 10:37 PM

@#35 ... We could ask the Ukraine for some dough ...

So now, instead of defending Democracy against an aggressor, the United States has been reduced to ~pay us?~


I disagree with that sentiment.


#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-03 10:47 PM

We could ask the Ukraine for some dough, we sent them a couple hundred billion. Of course a lot of that never made it to the Ukraine. It was laundered back into Democrat pockets.

#35 | Posted by visitor_

Anything you say, Pedo.

#37 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-03 11:35 PM

@#36 ... So now, instead of defending Democracy against an aggressor, the United States has been reduced to ~pay us?~ ...

That sentiment raises questions for me...

Among them are...

1) what is the price of Democracy?


2) Does paying a fee assure Democracy?


I have other questions. But, let's start with those two.


#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-04 12:13 AM

Didn't realize you were a billionaire.
Why are you

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

How did that context confuse you that fast? 3 F-15s is nothing for America. We shop like a Trillionaire.

#39 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 09:47 AM

Its going better than the last time the US invaded Iran, so there's that .

There are families of six dead soldiers that will disagree with that.

#40 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-04 10:15 AM

Ding ding ding ding.
Zed raises the salient point

#12 | Posted by truthhurts

Zeds a ------, like the rest of you .

#41 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-03-04 10:26 AM

#41 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER

How many American divisions needed to secure Tehran?

Bueler?

#42 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-04 10:30 AM

You need 194,000 occupation troops. That's 20 divisions.

#43 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 11:27 AM

That doesn't count logistics. That's only uniformed security troops.

#44 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 11:27 AM

If you want to fully occupy Iran, you need 1.86 million security troops.

That's the upper bound. It's constrained towards smaller numbers by legitimacy, local governance capacity, force quality, intelligence reach, geography, and external support for both sides.

#45 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 11:29 AM

Take whatever the population is and * by 0.02. So Iraq 2005 had a population around 28 million. We needed to have 560,000 security personnel on the ground. We committed only 150,000, surging to 170,000. In Vietnam we needed over 800,000, but peaked at 543,000. The numbers we sent include logistics, not combat forces, so we tend to send 1/20th of what we needed to.

Which means... 1 maxed out division for Tehran, or 2 regular divisions.

#46 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 11:33 AM

We could ask the Ukraine for some dough, we sent them a couple hundred billion. Of course a lot of that never made it to the Ukraine. It was laundered back into Democrat pockets.

#35 | Posted by visitor_

Wait so you are against money laundering now? I have some bad news about your cult leader...

#47 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-04 12:39 PM

" Wait so you are against money laundering now? I have some bad news about your cult leader...

#47 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2026-03-04 12:39 PM | FLAG: "

Says the guy who cheered the fraud in Minnesota.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-04 01:30 PM

# 48
Says the racist --------- who cheers for the decomposing------------------- who steals from cancer charities.

#49 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-04 01:37 PM

Says the guy who cheered the fraud in Minnesota.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-04 01:30 PM | Reply

You just make ---- up.

How do you live with yourself, liar?

#50 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-03-04 01:37 PM

Says the guy who cheered the fraud in Minnesota.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger

Gonna need a quote on that one.

If your opposition is really the bad side, you don't need to lie about them.

Like this: trump attacked democracy instead of conceding an election.

See? When your target is really on the bad side, the truth is all you need.

#51 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-04 01:39 PM

How do you live with yourself, liar?
#50 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

I've heard ignorance is bliss, which explains why Deplorable Trumping MAGAts are so excited about Trump destroying America.

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 01:44 PM

Says the guy who cheered the fraud in Minnesota.
#48 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Fraud in Minnesota is lower than the national average and much lower than most red states.

But you keep repeating the lie Trump is using to actively attack Minnesota with his Gestapo goon force.

Trump is literally attacking The United States, but he is also feeding your xenophobia and racism, so you're fine with anything he does as long as he gets rid of those damn immigrants eating the cats and dogs.

#53 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 01:47 PM

Sycophant you seem obsessed with pedophilia. Is it because you are a pedophile one or were you abused by one? Did you get into the van with a promise of candy or just because you liked it so much the first time?

#54 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-04 01:52 PM

Clownshart: "Fraud in Minnesota is lower than the national average and much lower than most red states." According to the department of made up statistics?

#55 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-04 01:53 PM

Sycophant you seem obsessed with pedophilia. Is it because you are a pedophile one or were you abused by one? Did you get into the van with a promise of candy or just because you liked it so much the first time?

#54 | Posted by visitor_

Trump/Putin 101 - accuse your enemy of your own crimes.

Your cult leader is a russian puppet, so call your enemies foreign puppets.
Your cult leader cheats elections, so say your enemies cheat elections
Your cult leader is a pedophile, so say your enemies are pedophiles

#56 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-04 02:13 PM

Clownshart: "Fraud in Minnesota is lower than the national average and much lower than most red states." According to the department of made up statistics?

#55 | Posted by visitor_

Since when are you against made up statistics?

"In 12 months I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe"
-epstein's party pal

#57 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-04 02:18 PM

Hey Visitard, just for you:

"A January 2026 report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed Minnesota's Medicaid improper payment rate was approximately 2.1%, significantly below the 6.1% national average."

mn.gov

ccf.georgetown.edu

#58 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 02:37 PM

#56 Wrong on all counts. I don't have enemies.

#59 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-04 02:39 PM

So you cherry pick one tiny type of fraud and think it means something. Medicaid fraud only appears low because Tampon Tim refuses to look for fraud or prosecute it when it's found.

#60 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-04 02:44 PM

#56 Wrong on all counts. I don't have enemies.

#59 | Posted by visitor_

Your enemies are trump's enemies. You hate you who are told to hate, for the reason they assign to you.

#61 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-04 08:43 PM

It's so wonderful that we are shooting down hundreds of millions of dollars worth of planes that could've funded health care for all of us.

Repubitaurd clowns are just stupid and evil.

#62 | Posted by chuffy at 2026-03-04 11:35 PM

It's so wonderful that we are shooting down hundreds of millions of dollars worth of planes that could've funded health care for all of us.

You should see how much we're spending trying to shoot down ballistic missiles and drones.

America was founded on death and has done nothing but spread death it's entire history.

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-05 03:34 AM

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
(Apocalypse Now [1979])

#64 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-05 06:35 AM

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