General Discussion

Only proven in the past unreliable OSINT accounts (that I had blocked, but revealed for this purpose) have reported it, and even they're now hedging.

The other accounts I've seen popping up are relying on indistinct footage of a few airborne incidents with no timestamp, either not showing a plane being shot down at all or one that's identified as a MiG-29, plus there's a still of an unscathed US pilot sitting on a rug on the floor in a large opulent room along with a bunch of furriners sipping tea, which is one of the most laughably blatant examples of AI slop I've seen to date.

Some accounts are trying to make hay of the fact that the CENTCOM account edited a tweet to deny an F-15 had been shot down around Basra, whereas originally it denied an F-15 had crashed there. I think they edited because swarming accounts were going, "Aha! So you're saying the F-15 didn't crash, but you're not denying it was shot down, huh?"

On all the current evidence, I really don't think there's anything to see here.