alt Hacker News46 airplanes were shot down during the second Iraqi war, and there has been over 150 total aviation losses (mechanical failure).
So far we have lost seven airplanes. There's no deep meaning behind one F-15e being shot down (if that's what happened): it's not a stealth aircraft and it's not heavily armored.
I'm not up on news, do we know what shot it down?
Everyone loves missiles, but could it have been guns? Was it flying low?
Remember when some helicopters were being shot down by RPG's and everyone was like 'whooo, no way, that can't be, they aren't accurate enough".