India, May 5 -- A US military refuelling aircraft has gone missing after flight radar systems tracked an emergency distress call. As per Flightradar24 data, the KC-135 Stratotanker transmitted a "7700" distress signal over the Persian Gulf, near Iran.

As per flight tracking platforms, the US military aircraft was headed towards Qatar at the time of the distress call.

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Furthermore, regional-level AIS and GPS jamming and spoofing has also been reported over the Strait of Hormuz as the war between the United States and Iran escalates.

In March, a KC-135 aircraft went down in Iraq during the peak of the US-Iran war.

"Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western...