Dubai: The US military is denying Iran’s claim that it seized control of an American surveillance drone and captured it intact near the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian state television reported Thursday that the Revolutionary Guard, in an “electronic warfare operation,” detected and identified the MQM-170 Outlaw drone, and took control of its control systems before landing it in Iranian territory. It did not say when the drone was allegedly seized.
US Central Command said the report was false.
“In the past weeks and months, the IRGC has repeatedly lied out of desperation, and today is no different,” Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the Central Command, said in an email. He did not provide more details.
Iran made a similar claim in 2011, when it was not at war with the US. It said at the time that it brought down an RQ-170 Sentinel drone with an “electronic ambush.
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