Iran Review - On 20 June 2019, Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a United States RQ-4A Global Hawk BAMS-D surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz using its new Seveom-e-Khordad air-defence system. The incident was the culmination of rising tensions in the Persian Gulf and nearly caused an armed confrontation between the ...

MNA Iran has successfully tested a domestically-designed and -manufactured air defense system capable of simultaneously destroying six incoming hostile targets. The system, dubbed Khordad 15, was launched on Friday, during a large-scale military exercise, codenamed Guardians of Velayat Sky-98, in the central province of Semnan. Khordad 15, first ...