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Iran Might Have Used a Chinese-Made Missile to Shoot Down an F-15E Strike Eagle Flown by the U.S. Air Force

Summary and Key Points: A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran in April — the first U.S. fighter downed by ground fire in decades. Many experts suspect the weapon was a Chinese-made shoulder-fired missile cued by a Chinese radar built to detect American jets, though no hard evidence has emerged, and the attribution remains far from definitive. Beijing denies supplying Iran, even after Xi Jinping assured President Trump it would send n…

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After the fall of an F-15E in Iran, Washington suspects the use of a portable ground-to-air missile linked to China. A sensitive track for the United States that fits into a context of growing military cooperation...

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An F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down in April over southwestern Iran. According to media reports, there are indications that the aircraft may have been hit by a missile fired from a Chinese-made portable air defense system.

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nationalsecurityjournal.org broke the news on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
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