Iran’s air defenses shoot down US drone over Persian Gulf coast
Iran’s army air defense units intercepted and shot down a US unmanned aerial vehicle as it flew over the Persian Gulf coastline.
Iran’s Southeastern Air Defense Headquarters announced in a brief statement on Monday that it had targeted the hostile drone with a missile.
The statement said that an intruding low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was detected in the airspace along Iran’s southeastern Persian Gulf coast, and that the Army Air Defense’s ground-to-air systems fired a missile at the aircraft.
On March 19, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it had successfully hit a US Air Force F-35 stealth fighter jet in Iran's central airspace. The US military later admitted that Iranian air defenses had managed to hit one of its fighter jets.
Footage captures the moment Iranian air defences successfully shot down an American MQ-9 drone over Bushehr.
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On Saturday, an unnamed military source told Tasnim news agency that Iran used a domestically-developed air defense system to hit the US F-35 stealth fighter jet.
“The targeting of the American F-35, which the United States previously introduced to the world as the pride of its military technology, was done using the Iranian air defence system," the military source said.
The source emphasized that Iran has yet to reveal certain military advancements in both offensive and defensive capabilities, a fact that has left US and Israeli officials perplexed.
At least six hostile fighter jets and 127 drones have been intercepted and targeted by the Iranian air defense systems since the war began on February 28.
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