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Iran claims it shot down US C-130 support aircraft in Isfahan (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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Iran claimed on Sunday that it shot down a US C-130 support aircraft in southern Isfahan, Anadolu reports.

The plane was destroyed “by heavy fire from a police special forces unit,” the semi-official Tasnim News Agency claimed, citing Iranian police.

In a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said “joint operations involving the Aerospace Force, ground units, popular and Basij forces, law enforcement, and the Army successfully destroyed the enemy aircraft.”

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It definitely is, those rotor blades are way too long for a plane and too thin to be an Osprey.

~~They AF didn't report its destruction so it may be one of those stealth UH-60s (like the Osama raid) or some drone platform that doesn't officially exist.~~ e: maybe they did? I only saw the 2x MC-130Js that were reported demolished.

e2: there were 2 MH-6 that were transported on the MC-130Js which also had to be demolished