TEHRAN – *For the first time, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps unveiledthe wreckage of the shotdown US Military drone.*
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled, for the firsttime, the wreckage of a highly-advanced American surveillance aircraft thatthe elite Iranian defense forces shot down last June for violating theIranian airspace in the country’s south.
Two videos displaying the wreckage were published by the Islamic Republicof Iran Broadcasting on Thursday, several months after the drone was fishedout of Iran’s territorial waters in the country’s Ra’as al-Shir AREA,Press TV has reported.
‘Iran possesses all codes, frequencies of MQ-4 drones’
Meanwhile, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division Brigadier GeneralAmirali Hajizadeh, who visited the exhibit, told reporters that theUS-operated MQ-4 drones have no efficiency against Iran anymore, becausethe country’s military forces have gotten their hands on all frequenciesand codes of this aircraft.
“This aircraft is unique in that it can fly in very high altitude and goanywhere without affecting routine flight routes. For example, it candirectly fly from the United States to the Persian Gulf,” he said.
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The commander added that the MQ-4 drone is equipped with all kinds ofespionage hardware because of its very big size, including all kinds ofsensors, cameras and SAR radars, in addition to a supercomputer.
“This aircraft is very valuable, but Iran is a red line for it, because weare now familiar with all its frequencies and codes…. Not only from adistance of 500, 100 or 150 kilometers, but from here in Tehran, we areable to incapacitate this aircraft from a distance of several thousandkilometers,” the Iranian commander said.
In a statement issued on June 20, 2019, the IRGC said its Air Force hadbrought down the US-made RQ-4A Global Hawk using itsindigenously-manufactured Khordad-3 air defense system.
The IRGC said the aircraft was targeted near the Kouh-e Mobarak region —which sits in the central district of Jask County in Hormozgan Province —after violating Iran’s skies.[image: Iran downing of sophisticated drone to hurt US ‘quite a lot’]link
