{"id":238315,"date":"2026-02-26T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=238315"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:44:39","slug":"us-drone-disappears-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/238315\/","title":{"rendered":"US drone disappears over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The American portal Defense Network has published an article about the disappearance of a US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone over Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/eadaily.com\/en\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/the-us-has-lost-an-expensive-drone-over-iran-and-blames-russia-and-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EurAsia Daily<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to military experts, the drone may have been deactivated by Russian or Chinese systems.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A modern drone disappeared from radar over the Persian Gulf, south of Iran, on Feb. 21 or 22, 2026, after sending a distress signal. The drone had taken off from Abu Dhabi and was conducting scheduled reconnaissance flights at an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers when communication with it was lost,&rdquo; the website writes.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe the drone was not shot down but rather deactivated. According to them, the drone&rsquo;s disappearance occurred at a time when tensions between the United States and Iran had reached a critical point.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American portal Defense Network has published an article about the disappearance of a US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone over Iran, EurAsia Daily reports. According to military experts, the drone may have been deactivated by Russian or Chinese systems. &ldquo;A modern drone disappeared from radar over the Persian Gulf, south of Iran, on Feb. 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":238311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238316,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238315\/revisions\/238316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}