Ankur Desai

Let me just talk to you about what the F-15 is.

It's a strike eagle.

It's a pretty large jet, but it is air to air and air to ground capable, which means that it's being used.

And there has been user generated footage that have seen the F-15 doing what's called drone cap, which is drone combat air patrol.

So basically F-15s airborne looking for Shahed 136 drones coming across the Iraqi border.

We know they've been doing that.

We know that three F-15s have also been shot down earlier on in Operation Epic Fury by friendly fire.

So we know that those F-15s from the 494th are in the region and they're on combat operations every day.

But I think it's important to...

to note here that whilst there are three US officials basically confirming that there has been a shoot down, we don't know why it's been shot down or how it's been shot down.

We don't know if it's from enemy fire.

We don't know if it's from friendly fire.

We don't know if there was a technical fault.

And the geolocation of the debris has not been corroborated yet.

But where I go back to open source channels, there is suggestion from open source that it's Kazakhstan province.

which is a province in Iran, which is literally right up to the Iraqi border.

So when you start joining the dots on this type of investigative work, the dots do kind of make sense.

There's also been combat search and rescue that have been put up and looking for the crew that would have likely ejected.

In another development, officials in Kuwait say an Iranian missile has damaged a power and desalination plant.

That comes as Donald Trump is threatening ever greater destruction, including striking power plants and bridges, unless Iran does a deal.