The Iranian-made drone that killed an American contractor and injured five U.S. service-members never fired a missile at the U.S. facility where the attack occurred, crashing into the facility, the Pentagon said Friday.
The drone was ‘of Iranian origin,’ Pentagon spokesman Air Force Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters Friday, citing forensics and intelligence analysis, as new information was still coming in about the attack on the facility and the U.S. ‘precision strikes’ that followed.
‘It did not fire a weapon to my knowledge,’ he said, when asked whether the drone was able to fire a weapon at the facility or if it had crashed.
Military analysts are still assessing how the drone was able to inflict the destruction it did on the base. U.S. radar which provides information about incoming threats appears to have been in order.
