{"id":88120,"date":"2019-06-20T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88120"},"modified":"2019-06-20T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:40:50","slug":"iran-shoots-u-s-drone-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88120","title":{"rendered":"Iran Shoots U.S. Drone Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Airmen work on a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk. The Iranians shot one of these down today. (Staff Sergeant Ramon Adelan\/U.S. Air Force\/AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Iranians are claiming that one of our drones “violated” its airspace. As a result, they shot it down. According to the U.S. side, it was in international air space conducting surveillance of Iranian activities.<\/p>\n

One of the things that’s important now is how the U.S. will react. President Trump commented that it may have been someone “in charge” who made a mistake. But, based on the president’s past actions, this isn’t necessarily an indication that we wouldn’t do anything. He, like the U.S. Military, is waiting for additional information.<\/p>\n

From AP:<\/span><\/p>\n

The paramilitary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said it shot down the drone at 4:05 a.m. Thursday when it entered Iranian airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province. Kouhmobarak is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) southeast of Tehran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When additional details come out, it’d be interesting to find out if the Iranians sent warnings to the drone. Usually, in situations like this where no miscalculations are desired, a military would issue a warning and do so in a way that the operator of an errant craft could change directions. Turkey tried to do that with a Russian fighter jet that eventually got shot out of their sky.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> has more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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