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Is this really true? If this were true, why are there no reports of Israel using its F-35s in operations over Syria? They lost an F-16 last month. Yet they flew it again into Lebanon/Syria just a few days ago.

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Actually there was a report with a bit of an controversy according to official israeli one of the planes was damaged by a bird the other version is, it was almost hit by a SAM missile, search on google for details

What’s an “almost” SAM hit? Is that a thing?

One man's missed is another's almost hit.

(No idea if F-35 were deployed by Israel at all)

They’ve received a few. I’ve been waiting to hear about them being used in actual operations. Haven’t heard anything so far.

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