what are the iranians saying? well, andrea, the iranians are saying they captured this u.s. scaneagle drone which entered iranian air space over the persian gulf. the very powerful navy chief of the revolutionary guard said iran used jamming systems to bring down the drone which had taken off from usa aircraft carrier in the region and was on a reconnaissance mission gathering data over iran and state tv showed two revolutionary guard commanders expecting what seems to be an impact scaneagle drone in front of a huge map of the persian gulf and hon it written, we will trammell america under our feet. as you said the u.s. denies any drone had gone missing but we had a similar incident last year where iran had jammed and downed a u.s. drone in the same region. the u.s. denied a drone had been down. after a few days they admitted the drone had been downed by the
it is clearly the intent that when the mission is accepted by nato that the u.s. will contribute what we call unique u.s. military capabilities. i think it s likely to see capabilities such as u.s. aircraft that are very capable of you is presentation of enemy air defenses or jamming systems. he hopes u.s. planes will be in a standby role and less prominent role once nato takes over command but he has to wait until the nato political leaders meet in brussels on sunday and they don t plan to meet before then. shep: arab participation is a key here and we know that they flew a combat mission? they sent several fighter planes. french fighter jets, the qatar