The Revolutionary Guards claimed to have intercepted and destroyed an MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
IRGC PR announced that the IRGC Air Force Air Defense System "intercepted and destroyed" an MQ-1 drone in the skies east of the Strait of Hormuz, off Sirik, on the morning of Thursday, October 29.
In its announcement, the Revolutionary Guards claimed that the aforementioned drone was the "14th advanced MQ-1 drone destroyed" and added that this operation was carried out using the "new advanced defense system" of the Revolutionary Guards Aviation and Space Force.
US officials have not responded to this IRGC claim by the time of this writing.
In recent comments on the military power of the Islamic Republic, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, stated at an election conference in the state of Ohio, that Iran "still has missiles" and claimed that "the number of these missiles is much less." Trump also added that Iran faced problems in the production of drones due to the lack of electricity.