Royal Navy shock: Crucial ‘spy in the sky’ drone SCRAPPED as Iran strengthens aerial power
Some years ago a psychic friend warned that Iran’s military technology was far more advanced than the Western media-military gave it credit for. In recent years Iran has made huge advances, particularly in the fields of missile, radar and drone technology.
The Western media-military-complex rarely acknowledges these advances. However, they have been considerable and this explains why the Royal Navy took its ScanEagle drones out of service.
In 2012 Iran shot down a U.S. ScanEagle drone after it entered Iranian airspace in the Gulf. Iran also “captured” two U.S. ScanEagle drones and began mass producing reverse engineered replicas.
In other words, having earlier shot down and reverse engineered similar U.S. drones, the Royal Navy’s ScanEagles would have been extremely vulnerable. So much so that they would have been a liability.
EXCLUSIVE: Royal Navy chiefs has been left with no 'spy in the sky' drones to support frontline warships on operations in the Gulf after defence chiefs axed funding.
By MARCO GIANNANGELI, DEFENCE EDITOR
Sun, Sep 8, 2019
Sources have revealed a UAV called ScanEagle, which could be launched from the deck of a Type-23 frigate and fly for more than 20 hours relaying live pictures, was 'quietly' taken out of service 18 months ago and has not been replaced. The news means that, as Iranian forces increase the use of drones to spy on HMS Montrose and and merchant vessels, the Senior Service is now unable to respond with similar counter measures. To make matters worse alternative drones, such as the RAF’s much more costly Reaper - capable of carrying 4 Hellfire missiles of two 500lb Paveway laser-guided bombs - are also not being deployed, other sources say, due to fears that they will meet the same fate as the US Global Hawk, which was shot down by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's (IRGC) earlier this year.
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