Washington, May 14 (IANS) US Air Force officials have told lawmakers that they are urgently studying a successor to the MQ-9 Reaper drone after recent combat operations exposed both the platform’s battlefield value and its vulnerabilities, a development closely watched by India, which has purchased MQ-9B drones from the United States. Senior Air Force officials told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday (local time) that the changing nature of warfare in th…
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Tehran, April 3 (IANS) Shortly after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced Friday that a second US F-35 fighter jet has been destroyed in the skies of central Iran by the “new advanced defence system” of its Aerospace Force, country’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that that the US forces are conducting a search operation to recover the pilot who had ejected the fighter jet. “Sources told Tasnim’s correspondent in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in western Iran…
Tehran, March 29 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed its air defence has struck a US F-16 Fighting Falcon and an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the country’s southern airspace.Making the announcement in a statement on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said the US fighter jet and drone were hit during joint retaliatory missile and drone operations by its Navy and Aerospace Division against heavy industries belonging to the United States and Israel, Xinhua news agency rep…