{"id":333085,"date":"2026-11-15T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=333085"},"modified":"2026-11-15T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T08:06:26","slug":"irgc-shoots-down-17th-us-mq-1-drone-over-qeshm-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=333085","title":{"rendered":"IRGC shoots down 17th US MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PressTV \u2013 Nov 14, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) says its air defense systems have intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, the IRGC\u2019s public relations office said the drone was shot down at around 2:30 p.m. by an advanced air defense system operated by the IRGC Aerospace Force.<\/p>\n<p>The statement described the aircraft as a reconnaissance and combat drone belonging to the US military\u2019s MQ-1 family, calling the interception another failure of enemy reconnaissance missions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IRGC, this brings the number of US MQ-1 drones it has destroyed to 17. The IRGC also said its forces have so far shot down 56 MQ-9 drones.<\/p>\n<p>The MQ-1 Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft developed by General Atomics and operated primarily by the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft has been widely used in US military and surveillance operations across the West Asia region and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The latest downing comes amid heightened tensions in the region and repeated warmongering by American officials and the Zionist regime to carry out fresh aggression against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began on February 28, Iranian forces have intercepted and shot down dozens of\u00a0US aircraft, including both drones and manned fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IRGC Aerospace Force, US weapons and military equipment captured by Iran during the recent wars are\u00a0undergoing reverse engineering and redesign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/Detail\/2026\/11\/14\/780711\/irgc-shoots-down-17th-us-mq-1-drone-over-qeshm-island\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has confirmed the downing of a U.S. MQ-1 drone near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.  Bringing the total of US MQ-1 drones the IRGC has destroyed to 17, in addition to 56 MQ-9 drones downed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":329648,"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":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333085","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=333085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333086,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333085\/revisions\/333086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}