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When the F-15 went down over Iran, the mission shifted in an instant from airpower to survival. One co-pilot was quickly recovered, but the other vanished into hostile mountains as Iranian forces and civilians were reportedly offered rewards to hunt him down. Hidden in a rocky crevice with only a handgun, he finally broke radio silence with a phrase that sounded, to those listening in Washington, like a devout Muslim’s prayer. That brief transmission sparked a terrifying possibility: what if Iran was spoofing the signal, baiting US forces into a deadly rescue trap?
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