Iran’s air defenses shoot down two more LUCAS drones, one missile
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s advanced air defense systems have shot down two Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones and a cruise missile over the country’s sky.
In a short statement on Tuesday, the IRGC said one LUCAS drone was neutralized over Bandar Abbas and another over Minab in southern Iran.
The LUCAS drones are made in the US but are in fact a reverse-engineered copy of the kamikaze Iranian Shahed drone.
Also, an AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile fired by an offensive aircraft was shot down over the sky of Dehloran.
In another statement released on Tuesday, Iran’s Army stated that the country’s air defense systems managed to successfully shoot and destroy a US-made MQ-9 Reaper.
The air defense systems shot down a LUCAS drone over Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf.
With the latest interceptions, the number of hostile drones destroyed by the Iranian Armed Forces’ integrated air defense network since the beginning of the ongoing US-Israeli war of aggression has reached 149.
The United States and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on February 28, eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.
The attacks led to the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and several senior military commanders.
Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of women and children, have also been killed and wounded in the war so far.
Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of ballistic missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.
