US media reveal Iran shot down 2nd US plane on Friday

According to New York Times report on Friday, Iran shot down two US fighter jets over the country. 
The loss of the F-15E jet came as big challenge to Trump administration.
A second Air Force combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, the NY Times report further said.
 The A-10 Warthog attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz about the same time that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the officials said.   In that incident, one crew member was rescued and search-and-rescue operators are looking for the second airman.  Officials provided scant details about the A-10 crash, including how and where it happened.
The report further said that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a key government figure overseeing the war, took to social media to mock the Trump administration as U.S. forces searched for a missing American airman from a downed fighter plane. “This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”he said in a post on X. “Wow. What incredible progress. Absolute geniuses.”
The shooting down of the two planes come after a few days ago, the U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the United States had achieved such control of Iran’s skies that it was flying B-52 bombers directly over Iranian territory for the first time since the war began. The downing of the F-15E underscored how an allegedly weakened Iranian military can still fight back, the Times further noted.
MNA