Iran claims it shot down two US MQ-9 drones - shares video

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that their aerial defence systems changeable down a US-made MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial conveyance implicit the cardinal metropolis of Isfahan connected Tuesday.In a statement, the IRGC said the long-range drone was “intercepted and destroyed” by an precocious strategy forming portion of Iran’s integrated aerial defence network. Iran's section media shared a video claiming the onslaught saying, "The infinitesimal of interaction and detonation of 2 MQ-9 drones successful the airspace implicit Isfahan past night."

As tensions successful the Middle East escalate, Iran earlier this week besides claimed that it destroyed a US E-3 Sentry surveillance craft during a March 27 rocket and drone onslaught connected Prince Sultan Air Base adjacent Riyadh.

The base, a cardinal hub for American subject operations, reportedly sustained important damage, with astatine slightest 12 US work members injured. Images circulating connected societal media purportedly amusement the craft burned out, though the assertion has not been independently verified.The aircraft, identified successful reports arsenic serial fig 81-0005, was parked connected a taxiway astatine the clip of the attack. While it is unclear if it was straight hit, defence experts accidental adjacent a adjacent blast could person destroyed it owed to shrapnel interaction and the precocious hazard of fire, according to subject website War Zone.