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Old 20th Jun 2019, 23:52
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Good luck hitting that truck, then.

"Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it downed the drone at 4:05am local time when the aircraft entered Iranian airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in southern Hormozgan. Iran used its air defence system known as Third of Khordad to shoot down the drone - a truck-based missile system that can fire up to 30km high, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, citing the IRGC, identified the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk, which can cost close to to $150m apiece, can fly higher than 16km and stay in the air for more than 24 hours at a time. Zarif, in his Twitter post, said the drone had taken off from the United Arab Emirates in "stealth mode" to avoid detection."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...142703718.html

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