A video of an F-18 jet landing on an aircraft carrier has been misrepresented online as showing a Lebanese Dassault Mirage III jet landing on an Iranian vessel. However, the video shows an F-18 jet, not a Dassault Mirage III, and the captured landing predates the October Israel-Hamas conflict by at least five years. At present, the Lebanese Air Force does not own any Dassault Mirage III aircraft, according to Flight Global’s 2023 World Air Forces directory. Iran also does not own an aircraft carrier according to GlobalFirepower (GFP), global military data providers. The video predates the October Israel-Hamas conflict and shows an F-18 jet, not a Lebanese Dassault Mirage III, and the aircraft carrier is not Iran’s.

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