Early Thursday morning, Iran shot down a United States unmanned aerial automobile over the Strait of Hormuz, which runs between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Iran recognized the drone as an RQ-4A International Hawk, a $220 million UAV that acts as an enormous surveillance platform within the sky. The assault marks an escalation with tensions already working excessive between the US and Iran—significantly due to the worth and technical sensitivity of the downed drone. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated on Thursday that the Northrup Grumman-made International Hawk—a part of a multi-billion-dollar program that dates again to

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