According to the Global Network reported on the 1st, the United States and Iran have quarreled again in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy found a US Navy unmanned boat during patrol, and then directly towed away without greeting, the US Navy found that after catching up, the two sides also have different opinions on this incident. After negotiations, Iran finally released the unmanned boat. Considering Iran's previous approach to capturing U.S. equipment, if it is really going to get it back, it may soon create an exact same thing.
Towed by Iran was the U.S. Navy's Saildrone Explorer unmanned boat
The U.S. unmanned boat was towed away, and the United States sent helicopters to retrieve it
In recent years, the struggle between the United States and Iran has never stopped, and two days ago, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrolled the Persian Gulf, they found a unmanned boat of the US Navy and dragged it away. The U.S. Navy, which was on a mission nearby, immediately dispatched a Seahawk helicopter and patrol boat to catch up. In the end, the Iranian patrol boat released the leash of the unmanned boat and left the water after hovering nearby for four hours.
The commander of the U.S. Navy accused Iran of acting as illegal, completely unfounded and destabilizing the situation in the Middle East. According to the Iranian side, in recent weeks, the United States has not complied with the provisions of the agreement on unmanned aerial vehicles at sea, and has deployed many unmanned boats on international waterways, posing a threat to maritime security, so it has dragged the American unmanned boats away only to avoid safety accidents. However, when reported, western media characterized Iran's behavior as "stealing", saying that its behavior seriously undermined the stability of the situation in the Middle East.
American MQ-9 "Grim Reaper" drone
Iran has become a "collector" of American drones, and has copied a large number of them after cracking
Capturing U.S. military equipment to replicate technology or show off is not the first time Iran has done so. Since 2011, Iran has carried out several strikes against U.S. drones. Iran previously captured an RQ-170 "Sentinel" stealth drone through electronic interference, and released relevant video evidence to disassemble and analyze the drone. Soon after, Iran launched its self-developed "Witness" stealth drone, which can be seen that there are many imitations of the "sentinel".
In 2016, Iran once again harvested a "Scan Eagle" drone, although this time the loot is not as high-end as the "Sentinel", but Iran still made a large number of imitations of its probes and silent engines. By 2018, Iran had captured an MQ-9 Death drone, and the United States, which learned of the news, was also very annoyed and directly said that it had nothing to say in response. At that time, many netizens joked that Iran was about to launch a new drone.
Images of the "Carman-22" drone released by Iran
Last year, Iran launched a new "Carman-22" long-range cha-ta integrated UAV, which can complete a variety of tasks such as reconnaissance and photography. Interestingly, judging from the drone pictures released by Iran, this drone is very similar to the MQ-9 "God of Death" drone in appearance, and the US media also directly pointed out that this is the copycat version of the "God of Death" when reporting, and it seems that netizens really said it. Judging from various events, Iran can be described as a "senior player" of drones, not only tireless in attacking the United States, but also the performance of imitation weapons is not bad. The capture of the US unmanned boat may be to repeat the same technique, copy the US unmanned boat technology for their own use, but they have failed.
Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, watches the "Sentinel RQ-170" stealth drone
Iran has repeatedly made trouble, and the United States has no choice
With the gradual improvement of the technical level of Iranian weapons such as drones, the United States must also be afraid of three points. Previously, the head of Iran's space department admitted that the basis for western countries to negotiate now is to first limit Iran's drone and missile capabilities, and the United States is afraid that Iran will also make a bit of a pestle. Previously, the US media hyped up that Russia had quietly purchased a large number of drones from Iran and had delivered them, but the rumors were false news, but even so, it also showed that the United States believed that Iran's drones were indeed stronger than Russia.
Earlier, Iran's "spy king" Sulaimani died after being attacked by the US military in Iraq, Iran fought back without mercy, firing dozens of ballistic missiles to attack the US air base in Assad, resulting in 11 US troops receiving concussion emergency treatment. Some people say that Iran is too impulsive, so that the US military has a reason to go to war with Iran, but the US military did not expect that the US military instigated it, and it seems that the US military can still weigh the strength of Iran.
A U.S. military base after being attacked by Iran
Iran's influence in the Middle East cannot be underestimated, and it is the "leading big brother" of many anti-American forces, providing weapons to the Houthis in Yemen and the Allah Party in Lebanon to deal with the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Iran is behind almost all Shiite militant groups in the Middle East. There is an old saying that the barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes, Iran has given the United States a headache for more than forty years, and there is still no way to take him. It is foreseeable that the cat-and-mouse game between the United States and Iran will continue for a long time.
(Edit: HX)