New Delhi, April 3 -- Iranian authorities on Friday claimed that they shot down a US fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet using the Islamic Republic's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)'s new air-defence system on Friday. According to the spokesman of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, the crash generated a massive explosion, and the pilot is unlikely to have ejected.

This is the second time since the start of the war on February 28 that Iran has claimed to have shot down a US F-35. On March 19, Iran claimed to have struck a US F-35 fighter jet.

The IRGC released a video that purportedly showed a missile hitting the aircraft mid-air.

While Iran claims to have destroyed the F-35, the US Central Command said the fifth-generation st...