According to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) via IRNA news agency, its electronic warfare unit successfully forced down a US MQM-170 drone in the western Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC stated that the drone's mission was to identify Iranian air defense systems along the Persian Gulf coast and in the Strait of Hormuz. Previously, the IRGC had announced shooting down an MQ-1 drone in the eastern airspace of the Strait of Hormuz.