Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims to have captured a “foreign spy drone” during an Iranian military drill in the south-eastern part of the country.
“A foreign spy drone was hacked outside the field of Payambar-e Azam 8 wargames on Saturday,” General Hamid Sarkhelli, the spokesperson of the wargames, told reporters.
He further added the Guard’s electronic warfare unit spotted signals indicating that foreign drones were trying to enter Iranian airspace.
“While probing signals in the area, we spotted foreign and enemy drones which attempted to enter the area of the war game,” the official IRNA news agency quoted the general as saying. “We were able to get one enemy drone to land.”
Sarkheili did not say whether the drone was American.
This comes as Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials earlier in December claimed to capture an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel CIA spy drone and three ScanEagle aircrafts.