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Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige.

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always is my friend and comrade Derek Davison,

and we're here for another news special on the Iran War.

Unfortunately, we had actually planned to take the day off,

but things are proceeding even quicker than we had feared.

Derek, let's start with the planes that have been shot

down over Kuwait, which I think give an indication about the United States and its warfighting

capabilities, at least at the moment. Yeah, or something else. This is a very strange story.

Three F-15s were shot down over Kuwait,

supposedly mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defense batteries.

None of the crew were apparently injured or killed, I should say.

The CENTCOM says all six of them, because F-15s are two cedars,

all six of them were able to eject and came down safely.

They've been recovered.

They're in stable condition, is the statement from CENTCOM. The Kuwaitis have acknowledged

that it was their fault for shooting them down or that their air batteries were responsible

for shooting them down, supposedly again, according to CENTCOM. It's just a very strange incident.

I mean, for one U.S. aircraft to be shot down by allied air defenses, I mean, admittedly, there's somewhat, you know, somewhat chaotic.

The Iranians are firing missiles. Everybody's on alert. Everybody's on edge. There is a war going on. I get all of that.

For one U.S. F-15 to be shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses,

which were U.S. made almost certainly.

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