Iran hits US bases, downs MQ-9 Reaper drones as Center East struggle escalates | World Information
Regardless that US President Donald Trump’s administration has claimed that the American navy has “demolished” Iranian infrastructure because the struggle started in February, Tehran is constant to strike onerous. It has reportedly broken at the least three US bases within the Center East because the hostilities resumed in July.
The US navy’s bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan have sustained injury from Iranian missile and drone strikes. Together with these, a former United Nations base camp and an industrial space in Kuwait have additionally been hit by the Iranian navy, ABC Information reported.
⚡️#BREAKING Iran claims to have shot down an American MQ9 Reaper drone pic.twitter.com/qkYP5VYNmY
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Uneven air defence challenges legacy Reaper drones
Iran has downed almost 30 US MQ-9 Reaper drones because the struggle with America began in February, a US official had stated within the first week of July. The Reaper drones entered the US Air Power service in 2007 and have been a distinguished asset for America’s counterterrorism operations within the Center East and different battle zones like Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iranian military’s air protection unit shoots down US terrorist navy’s LUCAS drone in south
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US’ Reaper drones, which had been designed to operate within the environment the place America had an higher hand over air dominance, have acquired a jolt from Tehran.
A US MQ-9 drone was shot down over the western Iranian metropolis of Dehloran.🇮🇷🇮🇷 pic.twitter.com/frZn38JzrF
— Ebrahim zulfaghari (@Zaidi1101469802) July 19, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday claimed that its navy shot down a US MQ-9 drone within the southwestern metropolis of Ahvaz. The IRGC added that the drone was downed when it was “conducting reconnaissance and surveillance of the operational areas of the south”.
Interceptions and deployment of low-cost uncrewed methods
In keeping with Tehran’s IRNA information company, the Iranian navy additionally efficiently intercepted a US cruise missile within the western area of the nation. The report added that Iranian forces’ naval air defence methods intercepted and downed an American LUCAS drone in southern Iran.
US navy had began utilizing Low-cost Uncrewed Fight Assault System (LUCAS) drones in Iran earlier this yr when the struggle broke out, Al Jazeera reported.
Casualties in Jordan mark a extreme escalation threshold
The Iranian ballistic missile assault on an airbase in Jordan on Friday killed at the least 2 US service members and injured a number of others. It was the primary time that US troops had been killed because the hostilities resumed round two weeks in the past.
