This incident would prove valuable information for US military intelligence analysts.
1. The F15 was shot down by a rogue terrorist irgc unit from the southern coast near the highly bombed Hormuz Straits, Hormuz Island, which reveals that the sector still have radar and missiles system in operation, which means a sector to be destroyed.
2. US aerial rescue crafts were shot at, BUT not with missiles, only by bullets, which may means that the terrorist irgc air defense system and missiles are limited in that sector.
3. US aerial rescue crafts were shot at by small arms fire, including the A10 which was flying slowly to find the missing pilot and thus the aircraft was vulnerable. Fortunately those rescue teams were only slightly injured and the A10 pilot ejected and was rescued almost immediately.
4. The rogue irgc units that are in the region does not have a strong hold on the communities living there, now reduced to pastoral and agricultural farming rather than jobs in the oil industry, REVEALED by those terrorists rogue leaders having to offer rewards for the live capture of the missing pilot.
Those are tribal lands and most of the inhabitants would be tribally minded - insular, wary of strangers, more so in these times of war and poverty, and would rather not get involved on ANY side, to live out their lives in peace as they and their ancestors had done for centuries. To get involved in the war on any side may bring wrath and sufferings to them and their way of life......
However, that some armed rogue irgc cell members are living amongst them is evident, proven by small arms fire to US rescue aerial crafts, and those terrorists or hot headed community members may need to be found, weeded out and destroyed so that the long suffering Persian community and Nation may live in peace, way of life and contribute to Humankind's peaceful prosperity, progress and evolution......
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