Israeli drone shot down due to malfunction

Source : http://old.mehrnews.com

TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) – Yedioth Ahronoth writes Israeli Air Force has shot down one of its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles over sea due to engine malfunction.

An Air Force Shoval-type drone engaged in routine activity was shot down over the sea due to an engine malfunction on Saturday. IAF helicopters searched for its remains in the sea between Tel Aviv and Netanya.

Shoval is one of Israel's largest and most advanced drones. The IAF has launched an investigation to discover out the reason for the malfunction. It was also decided to ground all Shoval UAVs.

The IDF stressed this is not the first time the IAF downs a drone in a controlled manner.

Iran brings down foreign unmanned aircraft

Source : APA

Baku-APA. Iran's elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran, APA reports quoting the official IRNA news agency.

The electronic warfare unit of the IRGC spotted signals that "foreign and enemy drones" were attempting to enter Iranian airspace, General Hamid Sarkheili, a spokesman for the drill, was quoted by IRNA as saying.

After controlling its navigation system, IRGC experts brought a drone down near the city of Sirjan, where the military exercise began on Saturday, Sarkheili said.

"We have managed to bring down an enemy drone. This has happened before in our country," he said.

Sarkheilim, however, did not specify whether the drone belonged to the United States.

Tehran has claimed several times that it had captured U.S. drones, including an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel CIA spy drone in December 2011 and at least three ScanEagle aircraft.

In early January, an Iranian navy commander claimed the capture of two small U.S. drones in past missions in addition to at least four others reported earlier.