{"id":195146,"date":"2019-09-22T07:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195146"},"modified":"2019-09-25T05:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T05:00:55","slug":"irgc-displays-british-american-drones-seized-over-irans-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195146","title":{"rendered":"IRGC displays British American drones seized over Iran&#8217;s territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Sept 21, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_195147\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Iran-displays-captured-US-UK-drones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195147\" class=\"wp-image-195147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Iran-displays-captured-US-UK-drones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Iran-displays-captured-US-UK-drones.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Iran-displays-captured-US-UK-drones-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran displays captured US-UK drones. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has displayed a number of American and British drones captured for violating Iran\u2019s airspace.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an exhibition in Tehran on Saturday, the IRGC showcased a British unmanned aerial vehicle, named Phoenix, seized by its Aerospace Division.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Phoenix is an all-weather, day or night, real-time combat surveillance drone. The twin-boom UAV provides surveillance through its surveillance pod, from which the imagery is data linked to a ground control station (GCS) that also controls the aircraft in flight. It has also a maximum flight time of around five hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The drone, powered by a 20 kW (26 hp) piston engine, had a maximum speed of 166 km\/h and a wingspan of 5.6 meters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IRGC also displayed the Aerosonde HQ vertical take-off and landing drone belonging to the US Army used for multi-intelligence payloads such as electronic warfare and communications relay in a single flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> displays US <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/drones?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#drones<\/a> captured over its territory <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6DwfHXF1x\">pic.twitter.com\/R6DwfHXF1x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Press TV (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/1175392581703929856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Aerosonde has been designed for expeditionary land- and sea-based operations and equipped for simultaneous day\/night full-motion video. It is field-proven with more than 300,000 flight hours, including desert heat and Arctic cold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is equipped with an easy-to-use launch and recovery trailer for constrained land and shipboard operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Desert Hawk was another American drone showcased in the exhibition. It has a length of 0.86 meters with a weight of 3.2 kg. It has an endurance of about an hour with an electric motor driving a quiet pusher propeller.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103170\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Downed-Hermes-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103170\" class=\"wp-image-103170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Downed-Hermes-900-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wreckage from a downed drone, thought to be a Hermes 900, which was intercepted flying toward Natanz. Click to enlarge for a much more detailed image<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In June, Iran shot down an intruding American spy drone in the country\u2019s southern coastal province of Hormozgan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The IRGC said in a statement that the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region \u2014 which sits in the central district of Jask County \u2014 after the aircraft violated Iranian airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Back in 2015, Iran also downed a US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft with minimal damage. The drone was flying over the Iranian city of Kashmar, near the Afghan border, when it was brought down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Known to be able to hack into enemy drones, Iran currently possesses the biggest collection of captured or downed American and Israeli drones, including the US&#8217; MQ1, MQ9, Shadow, ScanEagle, and RQ-170 as well as the Israeli regime&#8217;s Hermes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/09\/21\/606754\/IRGC-Iran-drone-US-UK\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s growing collection of captured or downed U.S., UK and Israeli drones is an indication of its improved radar and air defence capabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195176,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195146\/revisions\/195176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}