New Delhi, April 3 -- Iran has claimed that it has shot down another US fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet over central Iran by a modern air-defence system of the Islamic Republic's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian state media reported on Friday. It further reported that the pilot is unlikely to have ejected,

Spokesman of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters said, the jet was downed by a new IRGC Aerospace Force air-defence system and the crash generated a "massive explosion" that made pilot survival unlikely, the report said.

"A second US fifth-generation F-35 was struck and downed over central Iran by a new IRGC Aerospace Force air-defence system. Given the massive explosion on impact and during the crash, the pilot is...