#Middle East
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![GBU-72/B Advanced 5K Penetrator. (Source: Wikimedia)]( "GBU-72/B Advanced 5K Penetrator. (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Illustrative image. Loadout of the US fighter jets used in Operation Epic Fury. (Source: UNITED24 Media/Oleksandr Manukians)]( "Illustrative image. Loadout of the US fighter jets used in Operation Epic Fury. (Source: UNITED24 Media/Oleksandr Manukians)")
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What US fighter jets actually carry into combat over Iran looks very different from textbook loadouts—and increasingly mirrors the real-world configurations Ukraine is using in its own war.![US Patriot Missile batteries stand watch at a forward coalition air base on April 5, 2003, in the southern Desert of Iraq. (Source: Getty Images)]( "US Patriot Missile batteries stand watch at a forward coalition air base on April 5, 2003, in the southern Desert of Iraq. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion, killed yesterday evening when Iranian suicide drones hit a French military base in the Erbil region of Iraq. (Source: visegrad24/X)]( "Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion, killed yesterday evening when Iranian suicide drones hit a French military base in the Erbil region of Iraq. (Source: visegrad24/X)")
![Signage at a Sinopec gas station in Shanghai, China, on March 10, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Signage at a Sinopec gas station in Shanghai, China, on March 10, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)")
![The entrance of RAF Akrotiri pictured on March 2, 2026 in Akrotiri, Cyprus. (Source: Getty Images)]( "The entrance of RAF Akrotiri pictured on March 2, 2026 in Akrotiri, Cyprus. (Source: Getty Images)")
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-33a8cc969cef69f7d5f58da9892da6d2.jpg "Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion, killed yesterday evening when Iranian suicide drones hit a French military base in the Erbil region of Iraq. (Source: visegrad24/X)")
