Israel says fighter jet took down Iranian warplane, the first shootdown of its kind

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Israel’s subject said Wednesday that 1 of its F-35I "Adir" stealth combatant jets changeable down an Iranian Air Force Yak-130, marking the archetypal clip the precocious craft has downed a manned combatant successful combat.

"The historical shootdown implicit the Tehran skies is simply a testament to the spot of the Israeli Air Force and to your idiosyncratic determination," said Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, the commandant of the Israeli Air Force.

"The warfare continues – instrumentality location safely. Get immoderate rest," helium told the pilots. "The adjacent ngo is already waiting for you."

The F-35I is Israel’s customized mentation of the U.S.-made F-35 Lightning II, a fifth-generation stealth combatant that anchors the country’s aerial fleet.

Israeli F-35I Adir combatant pitchy successful formation during a combat cognition implicit confederate Israel.

An Israeli Air Force F-35I Adir multirole combatant craft flies implicit the Negev Desert aft taking disconnected from a subject basal en way to the Gaza Strip connected Oct. 14, 2023. (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)

According to the F-35 program’s authoritative website, Israel became the archetypal state to prime the craft done the U.S. government’s Foreign Military Sales process, signing a missive of statement successful October 2010.

The tract says the Israeli Air Force gave the pitchy the Hebrew sanction "Adir," meaning "Mighty One," and received its archetypal F-35 connected June 22, 2016.

The Yak-130 is simply a Russian-made, two-seat combat grooming craft designed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau, according to United Aircraft Corporation, the state-owned Russian aerospace institution that manufactures the jet.

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A Yak-130 pitchy performs aerial maneuvers during an airshow objection successful confederate England.

A Russian-made Yak-130 subsonic two-seat precocious pitchy trainer and airy onslaught craft maneuvers during a flying show connected the 3rd time of the Farnborough International Airshow successful Hampshire, England, connected July 11, 2012. (Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

It made its maiden formation successful 1996 and is presently successful progressive production.

Iran’s aerial unit received its archetypal Yak-130 grooming craft successful September 2023, according to Press TV, Iran’s state-run English-language broadcaster.

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Two subject jets and further craft slope successful choky enactment during a objection formation implicit Kish Island.

F-4 and F-14 jets from Iran and Russian MiG-29 craft execute a objection formation astatine the 9th International Iran AirShow connected Kish Island, Hormozgan, Iran, connected Nov. 27, 2018. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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In November 2023, Brig. Gen. Mahdi Farahi, Iran’s lawman defence minister, told Tasnim, a semi-official Iranian quality agency, that plans had been finalized for Sukhoi Su-35 combatant jets, Mil Mi-28 onslaught helicopters and Yak-130 trainers to articulation the country’s equipped forces.

Tasnim reported that Iran antecedently acquired MiG-29 combatant jets from Russia successful the 1990s.