TEHRAN - *For the first time, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps unveiled the wreckage of the shotdown US Military drone.*
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled, for the first time, the wreckage of a highly-advanced American surveillance aircraft that the elite Iranian defense forces shot down last June for violating the Iranian airspace in the country’s south.
Two videos displaying the wreckage were published by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting on Thursday, several months after the drone was fished out 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 General Amirali Hajizadeh, who visited the exhibit, told reporters that the US-operated MQ-4 drones have no efficiency against Iran anymore, because the country’s military forces have gotten their hands on all frequencies and codes of this aircraft.
“This aircraft is unique in that it can fly in very high altitude and go anywhere without affecting routine flight routes. For example, it can directly fly from the United States to the Persian Gulf,” he said.
The commander added that the MQ-4 drone is equipped with all kinds of espionage hardware because of its very big size, including all kinds of sensors, cameras and SAR radars, in addition to a supercomputer.
“This aircraft is very valuable, but Iran is a red line for it, because we are now familiar with all its frequencies and codes…. Not only from a distance of 500, 100 or 150 kilometers, but from here in Tehran, we are able to incapacitate this aircraft from a distance of several thousand kilometers,” the Iranian commander said.
In a statement issued on June 20, 2019, the IRGC said its Air Force had brought down the US-made RQ-4A Global Hawk using its indigenously-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