Iran TV airs images of debris of downed US drone

Iranian state television’s website has published the images of the debris of downed US drone.

The state TV says that the images show debris from the U.S. military surveillance drone that Iran shot down the previous day. The released images do not show any circuit boards, wiring or electronic equipment.

The map provided by the Iranian Department of Defense on Thursday shows the site where they say a U.S. Navy RQ-4 drone was shot down.

The Iranian Department of Defense says the drone was flying over the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz on a surveillance mission in international airspace in the vicinity of recent IRGC maritime attacks when it was shot down by an IRGC surface to air missile fired from a launch site in the vicinity of Goruk, Iran.

Iran maintains that  it has “indisputable” evidence a US drone it downed had violated its airspace as Trump reportedly halts retaliatory strikes.

An Iranian surface-to-air missile fired early Thursday shot down the RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. The U.S. said it made plans for limited strikes on Iran in response but later called them off.

British Airways will also re-route flights away from the Strait of Hormuz after Iran shot down a US military drone. The US has already issued flight restrictions after the drone was shot down.

The decision comes after the Federal Aviation Administration barred American-registered aircraft from flying over Iranian-administered airspace in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.