Developed by Turkish defense contractor Asisguard and dubbed the Songar Armed Drone System, this 55-pound drone is designed to be portable and easily deployed by infantry units and small security elements during both day and night operations.
Mattis said when he was the commander of CENTCOM an Iranian fighter made three attempts to shoot down a U.S. drone and missed each time. “Says something about their accuracy that they missed all three times.”
The remotely piloted aircraft may have been brought down by Russian mercenaries or troops with Khalifa Hifter’s Libyan National Army operating a Russian air defense system.
The U.S. military said Friday it lost an unmanned drone aircraft over the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where rival armed groups have been fighting for control of the city for months.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed they shot down a U.S.-made drone on Friday along the border with Saudi Arabia, according to a statement by the group's spokesman.