TEHRAN (Defapress) - According to Announcement No. 16 of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, over the past 24 hours, 13 advanced drones of the MQ-9, Hermes, and Orbiter types were targeted and shot down by the missile and artillery systems of the Iranian Army and IRGC Ground Forces and Air Defense under the command of the country’s Joint Air Defense Headquarters in the northwest, west, south, Isfahan, Kerman, and Tehran regions.

The announcement also states: Since the beginning of the American-Zionist aggression, the number of drones shot down by the defense systems of the Army and IRGC has reached 82.