The drone crashed near the Balad Air Base and was recovered by the Iraqi Security Forces. An Iran-backed group of Iraqi militias – The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the shooting. The group said that it had used SAM to bring down the Reaper. The Iraqi militias in the region have Iranian-made “358” surface-to-air missiles. This has been confirmed by the US military officials as well. The US military has turned the heat on the Iraqi militia. On January 4, the US conducted a rare drone strike in Baghdad, killing a leader of an Iranian-backed militia. The Reaper took off from Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and was shot over Diyala Province in Iraq. The Iraqi group has provided aircraft debris as evidence. It shared photographs of what appear to be winglets on the roughly $30 million MQ-9, while another showed a possible external fuel tank. It is unclear if the US military has regained possession of the crashed MQ-9.
22 January 2024
NOTORIOUS --------------- 2nd MQ-9 Reaper Drone ‘Shot Down’ In 2 Months | Middle East Skies
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