Iran: IRGC Shoots down Intruding US Spy Drone

By Staff, Agencies 

Iran has shot down an American RQ-4 reconnaissance drone flying over Hormozgan province, Tehran announced while the US military declined to comment.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air force shot down an “American espionage drone” that was invading Iranian territory, the IRGC’s public relations arm said in a statement released on Thursday. The drone, identified as an RQ-4 Global Hawk by state-run IRNA news agency, was flying above Kuh Mubarak in Hormozgan province.

RQ-4s typically fly at high altitude to conduct reconnaissance missions.

It can further gather near-real-time, high-resolution imagery of large areas of land in all types of weather, maker Northrop Grumman says on its website.

The US has not yet responded to the Iranian statement.

Earlier, on Sunday the Pentagon accused Iran on Sunday of a failed attempt to shoot down a US Reaper drone that was observing one of the oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week.