United States Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle Shot down

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on 14 September 2026 that its Aerospace Force, operating within Iran's integrated air defence network, had intercepted and destroyed an MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz; its navy said the same day that it had destroyed a US unmanned surface vessel at the entrance to the strait. The variant was not disclosed. The US Air Force retired its MQ-1 Predators in 2018, and the Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the MQ-1 variant still in US service, so the loss is recorded against it. Three days later US officials told CBS News that Iran had shot down at least two MQ-1s in recent days, without saying where.