Video Footage from the wreckage of destroyed MC-130 site in Iran
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Aftermath of the MC-130s being scuttled reportedly
Sources : https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2040687452034113602
RDimos@reddit
Lost two?
RickMuffy@reddit
Two, at a cool 130M each. Are we great yet?
Gloomy-Situation414@reddit
You are more than welcome to go wherever it’s greater. No one is holding you here, and freedom is at your fingertips to choose somewhere better suiting. I’ll buy your ticket.
FreeRangePixel@reddit
Cool story, guy. Does that offer also apply to Republicans who crap all over the basic principles of democracy and hate most of their fellow Americans?
Gloomy-Situation414@reddit
Who said anything about republicans? Is that what is always on your mind? Where do you wanna move that’s better? Name it. Is it all white?
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LightningFT86@reddit
You also going to foot their bill to renounce citizenship? The plane ticket's the cheap part.
Gloomy-Situation414@reddit
Nah. I’ll just help send you out. If it’s “so bad”, any other fees or costs shouldn’t be a problem. Someone that hates their situation hasn’t been saving money to change it? They just scream at the sky?
No way.
RickMuffy@reddit
Kindly fuck off, served in my military and planted roots, I'm trying to take the country back out of madness, not run away.
Gloomy-Situation414@reddit
I did too. So, not kindly, move.
Impressive-Sweet7135@reddit
I get the impression lots of people will put their hands up for that offer.
Gloomy-Situation414@reddit
Good thing I’ve got deep pockets. Go somewhere better. (I bet it’s a majority white country).
uae08@reddit
well worth it to rescue an airman
RickMuffy@reddit
We're the invading force, that airman should have been eating Easter dinner with his family, not being exfiltrated from a SAR operation
uae08@reddit
seems like you werent pleased the US managed to pull this off
Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips@reddit
Agreed. Such a waste. The pilots shouldn't have even been there to begin with and not the admin is wasting massive amount of equipment to fix their fuck ups.
krodders@reddit
Damaged, pal, DAMAGED
Not lost
Normal_Visual702@reddit
Yes, they got stuck in the sand at an advanced refueling station inside Iranian territory, and special forces (CAG) went to the site to blow up the aircraft.
dowN_thE_r4bbiT_holE@reddit
They have runways and refueling infrastructure inside Iranian territory???
skyfaring55@reddit
Can you imagine... all the planning, high tech tools, manpower, everything going great then... sand?!
RestaurantFamous2399@reddit
Only thing I can think of is they got stuck in some soft earth and couldn't move them. Very weird to lose two!
RDimos@reddit
Regardless of the reason, the loss of two C-130s constitutes a massive propaganda victory for Iran.
f18murderhornet@reddit
The propganda loss for iran when they couldnt capture two downed airmen in 48 hours after shooting them down, the USAF setting up a forward operating base, flying in mutiple low flying slow moving aircraft, managing to rescue both pilots with no lossds, is far greater.
evilswazzer@reddit
It really doesn’t lol
RickMuffy@reddit
They were stuck according to early reports, they came back with three more to exfil everyone and scuttle these.
redpaul72@reddit
It has been confirmed that the US MC-130s were destroyed during the rescue of the crew of an F-15 shot down in Iran. Debris can be seen on social media, but not all the videos have been verified.
RickMuffy@reddit
Almost 300M in equipment losses in this video.
snsdfan00@reddit
Good thing that trillion defense budget is increasing by 500 billion 😂
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RickMuffy@reddit
The whole world gonna keep seeing why we don't have universal Healthcare.
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ciupigghiassi@reddit
And the crew, that's irreplaceable
mattblack77@reddit
I dunno man; the military seems to have lots of spares
EnidFromOuterSpace@reddit
And how many died
SCWeak@reddit
As a result of these being blown up? Zero, they were scuttled.
pitrs101@reddit
So they landed and blow it up? Keep spreading lies.
immunotransplant@reddit
What does scuttled mean?
diprivanity@reddit
Does Google charge you by the search or are you just that lazy
merriman99@reddit
Scuttle primarily means to run with quick, hasty steps (scurry) or to deliberately sink a ship by creating holes in it.
Minted_Jack_83@reddit
I sunk y̶o̶u̶r̶ my battleship
EnumeratedArray@reddit
Means this was deliberately destroyed by the US to avoid it being captured.
RickMuffy@reddit
It's multiple, prob looking at 300M in scrap
Awkward_Forever9752@reddit
intentionally sinking your ship
Inevitable-Abalone-7@reddit
The plane was blown up to prevent it from falling into Iranian hands.
Hidden_Bomb@reddit
The crew themselves blew them up. Originally used in nautical circumstances to refer to a ships crew intentionally sinking the ship.
tomas1381999@reddit
Destroyed on purpose so the enemy can't get to it
Ubiquitous1984@reddit
No US personnel. The money is irrelevant when compared to bringing home a downed airmen.
Itchy-Chemical-7371@reddit
100 percent
FoximaCentauri@reddit
Who was Flying the aircraft?
No-Connection-2527@reddit
It was destroyed by US personnel before they left
FoximaCentauri@reddit
Ah okay, so it wasn’t shot down
Ubiquitous1984@reddit
Correct
Inevitable-Abalone-7@reddit
The plane was blown up to prevent it from falling into Iranian hands.
Entire_Anywhere3529@reddit
I was thinking about that. The money is important for health insurance companies. They care about the money more than the life. For the military, the entire no man left behind is a morale mechanism. They will spend millions and millions, because it is money well spent in morale. You've now rewarded all of the team with some "hoorah" and they will seek additional vengeance eagerly, when the broader war itself is entirely cynical in sending them to harms way for no real reason in the first place.
BetSquare7190@reddit
It saved a life, prevented the IRGC to gain a significant propaganda asset and many of their special forces got taken out in, in the middle of their own country.
Cold_Specialist_3656@reddit
It's too bad we couldn't find a way to both save the pilots life AND 300 million.
Oh wait, none of this had to happen.
Republican sand war 3.0 . They spread the trilogy across decades so every generation gets to see how pointless it is.
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RickMuffy@reddit
At least the propaganda was better in the GWOT, this time it's fucking obvious we're the bad guys.
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Cold_Specialist_3656@reddit
Yeah they had the populace fairly convinced of "WMDs" that time.
Now the President goes in TV and says "we're gonna take the oil" LMAO
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FMC_Speed@reddit
What makes us believe this wasn’t shot down and then blown up by the Americans after they evacuated?
theperipherypeople@reddit
Any confirmation that it was Delta that blew them up? I'm not finding any reliable source but many people are saying this.
elinamebro@reddit
Seems like it tho, seen a lot of plane crashes (aviation nerd) it too well burned to be from the crash
01Cloud01@reddit
Any of that stuff salvageable?
stormcapien@reddit
No
IslandFancy3220@reddit
Why didn't they use V22?
totensiesich@reddit
Range, anti-missile defenses, payload, take your pick.
omnibossk@reddit
Almost like they needed an V-44 Quad tiltrotor. Wonder if it could go from a dream to an actual airplane
IslandFancy3220@reddit
Brother they aar capability,it depends,on the other hand,you're right.
Neat_Key_6029@reddit
Bringing in the Osprey would add an enemy, the Osprey itself.
doomiestdoomeddoomer@reddit
Yeah that would have been cool.
cuban_rj@reddit
Wonder if the US dropped a bomb on it from the air after the team was safely out. This looks like too much damage to be from just ground based tactical denial of service
bungnard@reddit
The special forces operators prepped it to blow
Mikewold58@reddit
I would be shocked if they weren't quiet about a failure
Normal_Visual702@reddit
I said this above but I got downvoted.
bungnard@reddit
Well reddit is full of Iranian sympathizers
Longjumping_Rule_560@reddit
Funny how that works, after pissing of every decades long ally, even threatening to invade several allies.
nova_corsair@reddit
Well it's only habitual for one to side with the oppressed usually.....
Eeny009@reddit
Ground-based tactical denial of service... Cool, corporate lingo has entered the military sphere.
the-channigan@reddit
You say that as if quasi-meaningless jargon is something the corporate world has a monopoly on, when I’d say the military has a greater pedigree in that.
InterestingSpeaker@reddit
Don't see a crater
teamnani@reddit
Looks like a crash
Crazy__Donkey@reddit
Reports say the ground forces did it, and it makes sense, as you have more control on what you destroy than with an airborn bomb.
defiancy@reddit
I don't know about this one but in Iraq we would demo airframes that couldn't fly back to a base with c4, after we ripped out all the avionics we could in whatever time frame we had.
Joyous-Volume-67@reddit
no bombs, just a shit ton of explosives
Kogster@reddit
Then it’d be more spread out from the explosion.
This looks like burned in place.
Normal_Visual702@reddit
Delta Force went to the scene to destroy the aircraft.
No-Flatworm-404@reddit
That’s what it seems to have happened .
wstsidhome@reddit
Whooo weeee. They sure destroyed those things quite well to keep them from getting into Iran hands 😳
WunderChunda@reddit
Copium.
FMC_Speed@reddit
This sub made me realise it’s full of Americans, the “we” and “them” is used very heavily here
lockerno177@reddit
i saw a burnt helicopter rotor among the wreckage pictures circulating on twitter.
Cp_3@reddit
How do you know it’s a helo and not the 130 engine?
AceNova2217@reddit
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I haven't seen the video they're talking about, but the C-130J has very distinctively different properties to a helicopter (they're kinda pointy on the ends, whereas helo rotors are more square)
MaddingtonBear@reddit
The one in the back is a C-130J; notice how the composite blades are more shredded (you can also see the air intake for the nacelle below it. The ones in the foreground are metal blades.
Responsible_Bee3680@reddit
I would say that the blades are too long to be c130 props. But six blades. UH60s have a 4 blade main and tail rotor
lockerno177@reddit
ThatHellacopterGuy@reddit
Yeah, that’s a killer egg (AH-6 / MH-6) main rotor hub (what’s left of it, anyway).
bobs-free-eggs@reddit
Would that confirm that the 160th was involved in the recovery? AFAIK they’re the only pilots of the little bird right? Haven’t seen any MH birds in Iran yet, only the CSAR 60Ws.
bobs-free-eggs@reddit
Was trying to guess what the hell it was, only helo I was thinking that had more than 4 blades would have been the -53, and the hub in the pic is the size of its tail rotor…
WhereUGo_ThereUAre@reddit
A little bird helo, my-6, fuselage is made mostly of magnesium, which is effectively like an old flashbulb when ignited, that’s why you don’t see remains of the fuselage.
an-redditor@reddit
Could be the blades of the C-130's turboprop engine looking weird due to the damage or camera angles. I don't think there are any reports of them having to destroy any helicopters on that site.
Responsible_Bee3680@reddit
The hub is very different from the one in the background
lockerno177@reddit
helicopter blades have shock dampers on them, you can clearly see those at the root of the blades in the picture
secondly, c130 blades are not that long and thin.
an-redditor@reddit
Yeah, I commented before you updated the picture. It does look like a helicopter rotor.
Cold_Specialist_3656@reddit
It's probably one of those stealth helicopters they used in the Bin Laden raid.
er1cAtWork2@reddit
That sure does look like it doesn’t it??
Desi0190@reddit
I’m hearing these were destroyed by US SOF to prevent Iran getting hold of them.
Her_Pilot@reddit (OP)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-several-enemy-flying-objects-destroyed-during-us-pilot-rescue-mission-2026-04-05/
"The spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the unified command of the Iranian armed forces, said the downed aircraft included a C-130 military transport plane as well as two Black Hawk helicopters."
However OSINT and other sources have confirmed that the aircrafts were not reportedly downed but scuttled due to being stuck after landing in Iran to establish a Forward arming and refuelling point (FARP) which resulted in special forces destroying them allegedly.
Neat_Key_6029@reddit
It will take a few years to find out what happened. A crash or a stuck C-130.
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motivatedtuna@reddit
We could have had more bridges back home but instead they blew up some planes /s
BaseConnect1420@reddit
Certainly looks ‘obliterated’ and ‘annihilated’. Wonder how that happened.
ThatPlex@reddit
US forces destroyed the aircraft to prevent their falling into enemy hands, following the extraction of U.S. Forces. No Iranian military involvement.
sithelephant@reddit
I kinda feel there was a fair bit of indirect Iranian military involvement.
Minted_Jack_83@reddit
I can’t wait to see this movie on Netflix .they better not diddle around with this. Get the rescued airman into Netflix HQ tomorrow please. How the heck do you get that many aircraft stuck? Even a helo? Must have taken fire and precluded taking off. So they firefighted their way to a new location for a live pickup.
Her_Pilot@reddit (OP)
Images from the crash site in the comments
ZdenaVoda123@reddit
So as of now its one MC130 and a UH60 probably ?
Her_Pilot@reddit (OP)
Her_Pilot@reddit (OP)
chotchss@reddit
I’m thrilled we recovered our pilot and less happy at how many resources we’re wasting in a war we can’t win.
Lopkop@reddit
We can win this war, we just need another 19 years. You’ll see. I’m very confident that we can
JustConversation7847@reddit
And with no manpower losses, the war will continue on unabated
heyihavepotatoes@reddit
Burning through very expensive cruise missiles and ballistic interceptors far faster than they can be replaced though.
FucklberryFinn@reddit
No manpower losses? Yikes. Bad comment.
Also, the number of injured seems to be hidden.
Caymonki@reddit
Rumor is 13 lives lost and hundreds wounded, impossible to know because the White House refuses to release details.
But yeah no manpower losses, like pilots who were injured. Totally.
Broad-Lobster7470@reddit
Now you get to see it happen again and again and again.
Forsaken_Ad8252@reddit
Yesterday, when discussing Iran's air defense forces, I was told that the anti-aircraft guns were so suppressed that helicopters were already refueling over Iran using the MS-130.
AffectedRipples@reddit
There is plenty of videos of helicopters refueling over Iran though.
SCWeak@reddit
These landed and were stuck in sand, so the US destroyed them.
Longjumping_Rule_560@reddit
That’s going to need a lot of speedtape.
lordnacho666@reddit
Just needs a bit of speed tape
GurthNada@reddit
Basically Eagle Claw all over again, but this time with a happy ending.
zookitchen@reddit
So the Straits of Hormuz is open now right? RIGHT???
Hamsternoir@reddit
Well you've got to hand it to them they did s very thorough job
Prior_Cookie_3381@reddit
These laundry fires are getting ridiculous!
Careful-Bluebird-449@reddit
Expensive Easter for the USA! It's lucky they can afford it. Oh no that's right the country is broke!
Joyous-Volume-67@reddit
Reminds me of scenes from '79, but at least this time, everyone got to go home. Good op.
Late-Following792@reddit
There goes daycare for usa citizens
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hardware1197@reddit
Pretty thorough.....
Fickle_Flower6199@reddit
This might be from the rescue of the F15 WSO. They left 2 of their planes and intentionally bombed them so Iran couldn’t use them.
“Two transport planes tasked with flying out rescue crews were unable to take off from a remote base in Iran. Those planes were demolished to keep them from being captured by the enemy, the officials said, and the commandos flew out on three extra aircraft that were sent in to fetch them”
Source - https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/missing-u-s-crew-member-from-downed-fighter-jet-rescued-in-iran-sources-say/
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fishyhaworthia1@reddit
Only a quarter of a billion dollars burn up😬
hutch_man0@reddit
Wonder how it got stuck? Doesn't seem like the ground condition would have caused a problem...
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