US Navy drone shot down by Iranian missile over Strait of Hormuz: source By Lucas Tomlinson, Edmund DeMarche | Fox News Graham: Tensions with Iran are getting more dangerous by the day A U.S. high-altitude drone was shot down Thursday by an Iranian surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions in the region after last week’s attacks on two oil tankers, a source told Fox News. A commander for Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the shooting sends `a clear message' to the U.S. The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C drone, , which has the same wingspan as a Boeing 737, was over international airspace at the time and about 17 miles from Iran, the source said. Capt. Bill Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, declined to comment on the reported attack when reached by the AP, but he said no drone was over Iranian territory. Video IRNA news agency, the country’s state-run news arm, identified the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard confirmed the shooting and said it occurred when the drone entered into its airspace in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province. The U.S. said Iran fired a missile at another drone last week that responded to the attack on two oil tankers near the Gulf. Another senior U.S. official told Fox News last week that an MQ9 Reaper drone was fired on by the Iranians shortly after it arrived at the scene where the MV Altair tanker sent out a distress signal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for the "blatant assault" on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. After the tanker incident, Pompeo said his assessment was based on "intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.” Fox News' Lukas Mikelionis and The Associated Press contributed to this report
Credit where credit is due, I'm glad Trump decided to sanction them instead of sending explosives. The saber rattling before hand may have helped too, idk, we'll see. That being said, Iran is accelerating their nuclear program from what I've read. Not sure backing out of a deal that kept them accountable was a great move. Enter
I studied with some very talented engineering students while I was at Oregon State. One was a woman. My Iranian born and raised nephew-in-law is one of OSU's distinguished engineering graduates and a one time vice president of the largest engineering company in the world, CH2MHill. Are they backward? Believe that at your own peril.
People only sensationalize the old fundamentalist mullah's that make threatening speeches against America and Israel and paint Iran as that...actually it's populated with a highly educated, mostly under 30 years old population of kids who want booze, disco and legal pot. Sound familiar? Iranian kids outside Iran are just like any college kids..they fly 90 minutes to Dubai and party freely ….one was a bartending student of mine once...also married to a Taiwanese girl....loved to enjoy life and hated politics...it's just the militant right wing hawks in Iran and America that have to play cold war games...everybody else just wants to make a buck...it's as if someone who never encountered basketball heard Stephen A Smith bitch once on tv and thought he was representing the sport
