Iran’s army said its navy shot down a US MQ-1 drone over the Kuhestak area on the southern coast of Sirik using a new air defense system integrated into its joint air defense network. Iranian media released images of purported wreckage, though the downing has not been independently verified.
The drone claim followed an announcement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that its aerospace forces destroyed a US early warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for an airstrike on a telecommunications tower in Sirik, home to the IRGC’s Shahid Rahbari naval base. The IRGC called the radar strike a warning against “aerial provocations and oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz” and said it was prepared for an unrestricted response, marking Iran’s first claimed attack on US military assets in a Gulf country since early September.



