Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday that it has locked down and destroyed an advanced MQ‑1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz, relying on Iran's integrated air defense network with a new Revolutionary Guard air defense system. The US military has yet to confirm this. In the confrontation with Iran, the US military has lost at least 45 MQ‑9 Reaper drones, accounting for about a quarter of the aircraft's total fleet. The cost of a single Reaper drone is between 30 million and 50 million US dollars depending on the sensor and weapon configuration, and the total potential value of this batch of losses has exceeded 1.3 billion US dollars.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday that it has locked down and destroyed an advanced MQ‑1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz, relying on Iran's integrated air defense network with a new Revolutionary Guard air defense system. The US military has yet to confirm this. In the confrontation with Iran, the US military has lost at least 45 MQ‑9 Reaper drones, accounting for about a quarter of the aircraft's total fleet. The cost of a single Reaper drone is between 30 million and 50 million US dollars depending on the sensor and weapon configuration, and the total potential value of this batch of losses has exceeded 1.3 billion US dollars.