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The Aerospace Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on August 7 showcased an underground exhibition with the wreckage of dozens of United States and Israeli drones.
The display, featured in a teaser released by the state-run IRIB news agency, includes a near-intact Israeli Hermes 900 combat drone with serial number “923”, which was reportedly brought down by the IRGC using electronic warfare.
It also includes remains from more than 30 U.S. MQ-9 Reaper combat drones downed since the start of the war—a figure confirmed by a U.S. official—alongside remnants from the U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet shot down right before the first ceasefire, namely an ejection seat, a part of the canopy, and a section of its tail.
In addition, the exhibition includes parts from several U.S. and Israeli missiles and munitions that were intercepted by Iranian air defenses.
IRGC engineers plan to reverse-engineer the captured technology to upgrade Iran’s domestic drone capabilities, the semi-official Mehr news agency, which also released footage from the exhibition, reported.
According to a Wikipedia compilation of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the latest Iran war, the U.S. suffered the heaviest aerial losses of any party in the conflict, with 74 military aircraft destroyed or damaged.
The bulk of the toll came from unmanned systems: 36 MQ-9 drones were lost, along with one MQ-1 Predator, two MQ-4C Triton drones—one of them only damaged—and one Tiguar M drone.
Piloted losses included five F-15Es, one of them only damaged; four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, two of them only damaged; two CH-47 Chinook helicopters; two MC-130 transport aircraft; four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters; and single losses each of an AH-64 Apache, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, a CH-53E Super Stallion, an HH-60 Pave Hawk that was damaged, and an SH-60 Seahawk. Eight KC-135 Stratotankers were destroyed or damaged, one KC-46 Pegasus tanker was lost, and two E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft were destroyed or damaged, with an F-35 Lightning II also damaged by suspected Iranian ground fire.
Israel’s military aircraft losses totaled 22, consisting entirely of unmanned systems rather than crewed jets. Eight Hermes 900 drones and four Hermes 450 drones were shot down, several by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon in addition to Iranian air defenses, while six Heron drones and four Eitan drones were also downed over Iranian territory.
The IRGC Aerospace Force exhibition highlights some of the achievements of Iranian air defenses during the war. However, the wreckage of the drones and missiles recovered by Iran does carry major technological value that could indeed help the Islamic Republic advance its capabilities.
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the us threw almost everything in to defeat iran. so museums will have displays for generations to see. trump will threaten iran again ? americans got nothing but great debt.
yep and you are the same idiot along with your friends on here saying how the palestians were defeating the isrealis. and then video footage came out, how the entire gaza strip looks just as bad as germany in 1945. and how the isrealis got the palestinians standing in lines begging for food and shooting at them as they leave. so i guess according to you we are suppose to believe iran won now huh?
bog standard bloodthirsty joo vampires gloating over the civilians they have murdered after getting their butts kicked in combat. nazis gloated over the jooz they starved and it didn’t end well for them. jooz are the new nazis and will share the same fate.
you beat me to it and said essentially the same thing. the guy/ai above kicked an own-goal and just confessed to the world what and how they’re doing their genocide in palestine.
cunning and evil but not smart…
so let me get this straight shit-front, for the limited damage you stated iran did to israel and the u.s. do you really think that at all compares to the damage the isrealis and americans did to them in this war and the other one a month before it? where isrealis jets were operating over tehran with complete air superiority. and iran was begging the arab states to negotiate a ceasefire. israel literally had the iranians hiding in caves terrified.
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and let’s not forget when we zoom out further to include the other isreali victories like how irans last president mysteriously died in a plane crash and the new president was said to be more loyal to western and isrealis values. the isrealis have been completely embarrassing the iranians for decades now. no one but the idiots on shit-front that thinks the iranians will defeat israel and america.
the jooz and amerikunts are bogged down in another forever war that is wrecking their economies and destabilising them internally. they couldn’t even destroy hamas in the postage stamp of gaza. no joo or amerikunt planes were operating over tehran they were skulking around over iraq firing stand off missiles from hundreds of miles away. no amerikunt ships dare sail within 300 miles of the iranian coast. the dollar is toast.
they have run out of missiles and the kikenreich is defenceless against missile attack. 15 amerikunt gulf bases have been turned into rubble and have been abandoned. now the same thing is happening in jordan. the amerikunts are being kicked out of the middle east. all the quisling gulf regimes in bed with the jooz are totally f….d. soon the jooz will have to hit the road and vacate occupied palestine.
the only begging for a ceasefire was from the jooz and amerikunts after 12 days in june as the kikenreich was being turned into rubble. now chumpo is begging for another ceasefire. but the eye-ranians are just telling him to go f… himself. the jooz and amerikunts will soon go into the dustbin of history.
oh dear! chumpo’s little aeroplanes are so much scrap metal! heheheheh
i showcase all the used condoms and dildos used on my anuz.
typical israeli, bragging about your well-worn a-hole.