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IRGC downs advanced MQ-1 drone over Strait of Hormuz

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Islamic Republic News Agency

🎙 IRGC downs advanced MQ-1 drone over Strait of Hormuz 📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the downing of an advanced MQ-1 drone in the airspace over the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC announced on Monday that its Aerospace Force, operating within Iran’s integrated air defense network, has intercepted and destroyed an advanced MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz moments ago. ​ The IRGC Navy had earlier announced that it had struck and destroyed a US unmanned surface vessel at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. ​ The Navy added that the US "terrorist and aggressor army" had in recent days dispatched unmanned vessels to the Strait of Hormuz out of fear of approaching and confronting the Iranian forces. 📲 ​

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