{"id":38530,"date":"2026-09-17T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-destroys-us-mq-9-drone-near-qeshm-island\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:05:56","slug":"irgc-destroys-us-mq-9-drone-near-qeshm-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-destroys-us-mq-9-drone-near-qeshm-island\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC destroys US MQ-9 drone near Qeshm Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6175413.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Iran&#8217;s air defense forces shot down a US MQ-9 drone over Qeshm Island on Thursday morning, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the advanced drone, which was belonging to the &#8220;terrorist&#8221; US military, was detected at 10:12 a.m. while violating Iranian airspace in the general area of Qeshm Island. It was destroyed by fire from the IRGC&#8217;s new aerospace air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>The interception and destruction of the aircraft was carried out within the country&#8217;s integrated air defense network, relying on domestically produced radar and missile systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247839\/IRGC-destroys-US-MQ-9-drone-near-Qeshm-Island\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s air defense forces shot down a US MQ-9 drone over Qeshm Island on Thursday morning, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.\u00a0 The statement said the advanced drone, which was belonging to the &#8220;terrorist&#8221; US military, was detected at 10:12 a.m. while violating Iranian airspace in the general area of Qeshm Island. It was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}