Iran claimed that a US Reaper and Global Hawk drone approached Iran’s airspace during a recent drill and that Iran switched on its sophisticated air defenses to warn the drones not to continue on their flight path. According to Iran’s Fars News, which generally represents the regime, the incident took place as Iran was carrying out its Zulfiqar army drill. An MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-4 Global Hawk were noticed by Iranian radar apparently entering the “air defense identification area.”
While they were under full observation of the country’s integrated air defense network from miles away…they were intercepted by the army air defense and faced a serious warning,” Iran’s media says. The report notes that the UAVs, which have a flight range of thousands of kilometers, “changed their route from approaching the borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the air defense was determined to intercept and warn.”
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