{"id":80966,"date":"2026-03-02T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80966"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:26:55","slug":"u-s-claims-kuwait-mistakenly-shot-down-three-u-s-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-claims-kuwait-mistakenly-shot-down-three-u-s-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Claims Kuwait Mistakenly Shot Down Three U.S. Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire Monday\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-israel-us-03-02-2026-cb42936de1d8c261be8f30f11c6665fa\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">during an Iranian air assault<\/a><\/span>, the U.S. military said.\u00a0All six crew members safely ejected from the F-15E Strike Eagles and were in stable condition after being recovered, the U.S. said.\u00a0An attack by Iranian aircraft, missiles and drones was underway at the time the planes were shot down.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state television claimed that Iran had targeted one of the U.S. planes that crashed in Kuwait without elaborating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772440015\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Claims Kuwait Mistakenly Shot Down Three U.S. Planes\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire Monday\u00a0during an Iranian air assault, the U.S..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}