President Donald Trump pursues a campaign of isolating Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and role in regional wars. The RQ-4 Global Hawk, is designed to gather near real-time, high-resolution images in all types of weather and during day and night. Here are some facts about the Global Hawk, which is considered to be one of the U. Commercial passenger aircraft typically fly at altitudes of between 31, and 38, feet, or 9 to 11 km.
The drone can fly for up to 32 hours and has a range of up to 12, nautical miles, or 22, km. On Thursday, Trump declined to comment about the U. Iran has insisted that the drone entered Iranian airspace. Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, said that a American Boeing P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane was in Iranian airspace at the same time as the drone, but Iran had decided not to shoot it down because Iran authorities did not want casualties, Tasnim reported, according to Reuters.
Iran said the P-8 was carrying 35 Americans, but the U. Navy says the crew compliment of the plane is nine. Tasnim also released photos that it said were of the drone, as well as video that it said showed Iran firing a surface-to-air missile at the drone. Such aircraft fly at high altitudes and are hard to hit with short-range missiles. Americans may remember that Iran allegedly captured a smaller drone——the RQ Sentinel ——in In , the United States declined to claim the aircraft.
So the simple fact of sending a surveillance drone over a conflict area does not in itself lead to escalation necessarily. So messaging discipline——which has never been a hallmark of this administration——is all the more important with this particular adversary. Beyond the current situation, Gettinger, of the Center for the Study of the Drone, argues that the U. Drones are becoming increasingly popular in regions with high political and military tensions.
An earlier version of this story misstated the location where the United States military says the drone was shot down.
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