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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Luke Reevey

Declassified footage shows moment US bombs Iranian warplanes

The U.S. Central Command has released declassified footage showing strikes on multiple Iranian warplanes.

The footage appears to show a C-130 Hercules and P-3F Orion plane — ageing aircraft Iran bought off the U.S. before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

President Donald Trump insisted that the US had won the war but didn’t want to have to go back every two years. “We don’t want to leave early do we?” he said on Wednesday. “We've got to finish the job.”

In a post to X on Wednesday, 11 March, the U.S. Central Command wrote, "The Iranian regime is losing air capability day by day. U.S. forces aren’t just defending against Iranian threats, we are methodically dismantling them."

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