TEHRAN ( Halbeeg News) – Iranian Revolutionary Guard said they shot down a US drone with a surface-to-air missile on Thursday.
The spy aircraft was brought down after flying into Iranian airspace, US officials said the drone was in the international territory at the time.
“The US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down” in the country’s southern coastal province of Hormozgan, the force’s website said. “It was shot down when it entered Iran’s airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in the south.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity, two US officials said an MQ-4C Triton US Navy drone was brought down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.
No further details were immediately available, including the time of the shootdown.
Thursday’s incident marks the first direct Iranian-claimed attack on US assets amid the escalating crisis after the US imposed sanctions on Tehran earlier this year and increased military presence in the Gulf.
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