WASHINGTON – US Military has responded over Iranian claims of shooting downspy drone.
The US military’s Central Command (Centcom) confirmed that Iranian forcesshot down a US Navy surveillance drone, an RQ-4 Global Hawk, but insistedthat the downing took place in international airspace, and described it asan “unprovoked attack”.
A BAMS-D drone was downed by an Iranian surface-to-air missile system whileflying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, US Centcomspokesperson Navy Captain Bill Urban said in a statement. He said ithappened at 23:35 GMT on Wednesday.
“Iranian reports that the aircraft was over Iran are false,” he added.”This was an unprovoked attack on a US surveillance asset in internationalairspace.”
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Previously, the US military alleged that Iran had fired a missile atanother drone last week that was responding to the attack on two oiltankers near the Gulf of Oman. The US blames Iran for the attack on theships, while Tehran denies it was involved.
