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There has been FLIR footage of a supposed F35 getting shot by an Iranian missile, and I think the footage is FAKE... likely a doctored FLIR video taken from a video game, and shared by the usual suspects of Iranian regime propagandists. Compare the difference between real, authenticated footage of fighter jets in the sky. Real FLIR is grainy, messy, noisy, and has artifacts. The one from the Iranian regime propoganda is too clean and blurry at the same time. They likely applied a blur/contrast filter to obfuscate the origin of the footage. It also lacks thermal heat blooming from the engines, and yes, even F-35s show a lot of heat bloom... instead, it's just a "gradient stick" coming from the back of the plane, with no halo effect. There are no missile contrails, and the exhaust plume from the missile is absent. The sky is too uniformly "grey" with no background noise or lens effects that create vignetting. With so many automated systems on the F35, there is a 0% chance that the F35 would have been caught unaware of an incoming missile. It would have taken evasive actions, used countermeasures, EW, etc. Instead, it keeps flying straight even after the explosion, which also looks fake.