My personal opinion is that we should knock them down whenever they come within range.
"As always it was a complex tactical picture, we believe two drones. We believe two drones were successfully ‐ there may have been more that we are not aware of ‐ those are the two that we engaged successfully," Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told CBS News on Tuesday.
Speaking aboard the USS Boxer, the ship that targeted the drones, McKenzie said they are "confident we brought down one drone, we may have brought down a second."
CBS said the incidents took place about an hour apart after the Navy believed the two aircraft were flying too close to the ship.
The USS Boxer was monitoring Iranian boats and helicopters in the region.
Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
claimed the US brought down its own drone, a notion that President Trump dismissed by saying during a White House event Monday that the US used "new technology that’s actually quite amazing."
The development comes as Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last Saturday and after Trump called off a military strike against Iran last month for shooting down an unmanned US surveillance drone.
Tensions are running high in the region as Tehran is trying to enlist Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an countries to help it ease sanctions Trump imposed after pulling the US out of an Obama-era nuclear deal last year.