{"id":325753,"date":"2026-04-06T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325753"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:04:12","slug":"this-is-the-aircraft-losses-scorecard-for-operation-epic-fury-updated-as-of-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325753","title":{"rendered":"This is the aircraft losses scorecard for Operation Epic Fury \u2014 updated as of this morning."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Islander Reports \u2013 April 5, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/US-Military-aircraft-losses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-325757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/US-Military-aircraft-losses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 F-35 hit by Iranian SAM limped home with shrapnel damage. 4 F-15E Strike Eagles gone \u2014 3 by Kuwaiti friendly fire, 1 shot down over central Iran by the IRGC\u2019s new passive infrared air defence system.<\/p>\n<p>1 A-10 Warthog struck by Iranian fire near the Strait of Hormuz, pilot ejected over Kuwait, aircraft destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>1 E-3 Sentry AWACS worth $700 million \u2014 split in two at Prince Sultan Air Base. At least 2 KC-135 tankers destroyed, 5 damaged. 17 MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend alone: F-15E from RAF Lakenheath\u2019s 494th Squadron shot down over Isfahan. A-10 providing rescue cover struck and destroyed. 2 Black Hawks hit under rifle fire from Bakhtiari tribesmen. 2 MC-130J Commando IIs blown up on Iranian soil. 1 MH-6 Little Bird destroyed. Iranian reporters and locals photographing all of it in the Isfahan desert this morning.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said Thursday: \u201cTheir air and missile defence systems have largely been destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least $2 billion in destroyed American aircraft. Iran still firing. 38 days in. 38x Trump and co. proclaimed Iran had been defeated.<\/p>\n<p>This was never America\u2019s war. It was Netanyahu\u2019s war and the Apprentice was ordered to fight it with American lives, American treasure, and what remained of American credibility in the Gulf. The stated goals were Iran\u2019s nuclear program, regime change, total military defeat, liberation of the Iranian people. Every single one has failed replaced by \u201cat least we didn\u2019t leave men behind.\u201d Tell that to the families of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 Trump said of Bush and Iraq: \u201cThe war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilised the Middle East.\u201d In 2011 he said of Obama: \u201cOur president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He\u2019s weak and he\u2019s ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both statements were correct. So by his own measure what does that make the man who actually started and lost this war, on Netanyahu\u2019s orders, with American blood and treasure? History already knows the answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/islanderreports.substack.com\/subscribe\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Subscribe<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islanderreports.substack.com\/p\/this-is-the-aircraft-losses-scorecard\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was never America\u2019s war. It was Netanyahu\u2019s war and the Apprentice was ordered to fight it with American lives, American treasure, and what remained of American credibility in the Gulf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325759,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325753\/revisions\/325759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}