The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced on Wednesday that its air defenses shot down a US MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island amid rising field tensions in the Strait of Hormuz region. The Revolutionary Guard stated that this drone is the fifteenth
MQ-1 of its kind to be downed, while the US military has yet to confirm the incident. Earlier, an Iranian news agency reported that electronic warfare units of the Guard's Aerospace Force forced two US MQM-170 reconnaissance drones to land
in the southern airspace of Qeshm Island, which had been subjected to US strikes. Sources indicated that US forces targeted radar systems and missile launch platforms on the island as a defensive measure against surface-to-air missile threats. A US official
explained that these strikes were a defensive response to Iranian use of surface-to-air missiles against US assets.
