1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:03,913 - Hey, good afternoon everybody. 2 00:00:03,913 --> 00:00:06,410 Thanks for joining us on short notice. 3 00:00:06,410 --> 00:00:08,170 We just want to get some information out to you guys. 4 00:00:08,170 --> 00:00:09,761 So, what we're gonna do is we have 5 00:00:09,761 --> 00:00:14,200 Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella who is 6 00:00:15,232 --> 00:00:17,630 the commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command. 7 00:00:17,630 --> 00:00:19,500 He's calling us from the Combined Air 8 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:21,860 Operations Center Al Udeid Qatar. 9 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:24,785 He's gonna make a brief statement on last night's shootdown. 10 00:00:24,785 --> 00:00:27,370 And at this time he's not gonna take any questions 11 00:00:27,370 --> 00:00:28,470 but we'll hopefully be coming back to you 12 00:00:28,470 --> 00:00:29,870 guys with some more information later today. 13 00:00:29,870 --> 00:00:31,900 So, General. 14 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:34,477 - [Reporter] Jonathan, can we ask you why no questions? 15 00:00:40,058 --> 00:00:41,475 - [Joseph] Hello. 16 00:00:42,886 --> 00:00:43,860 Hello, good afternoon, 17 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:46,480 this is Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella, 18 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,353 commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command. 19 00:00:49,353 --> 00:00:51,420 I'm prepared to give a statement 20 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:54,183 but I won't be answering questions at this time. 21 00:00:55,350 --> 00:00:58,648 A U.S. Navy RQ-4 was flying over the Gulf of Oman 22 00:00:58,648 --> 00:01:02,130 and the Strait of Hormuz on a recent surveillance mission 23 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:03,989 in international airspace in the vicinity 24 00:01:03,989 --> 00:01:07,800 of recent IRGC maritime attacks 25 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,950 when it was shot down by an IRGC surface to air missile 26 00:01:11,950 --> 00:01:16,220 fired from a location in the vicinity of Goruk Iran. 27 00:01:16,220 --> 00:01:19,400 This was an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset 28 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,500 that had not violated Iranian airspace 29 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:25,167 at any time during its mission. 30 00:01:25,167 --> 00:01:29,270 This attack is an attempt to disrupt our ability 31 00:01:29,270 --> 00:01:31,870 to monitor the area following recent threats 32 00:01:31,870 --> 00:01:35,395 to international shipping and the free flow of commerce. 33 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:38,392 Iranian reports that this aircraft was 34 00:01:38,392 --> 00:01:42,293 shot down over Iran are categorically false. 35 00:01:43,610 --> 00:01:45,896 The aircraft was over the Strait of Hormuz 36 00:01:45,896 --> 00:01:48,583 and fell into international waters. 37 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,470 At the time of the intercept, the RQ-4 was operating 38 00:01:53,470 --> 00:01:56,680 at high altitude approximately 34 kilometers from 39 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,290 the nearest point of land on the Iranian coast. 40 00:02:00,290 --> 00:02:03,797 This dangerous and escalatory attack was irresponsible 41 00:02:03,797 --> 00:02:06,708 and occurred in the vicinity of established 42 00:02:06,708 --> 00:02:11,708 air corridors between Dubai, UAE, and Muscat, Oman, 43 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:15,470 possibly endangering innocent civilians. 44 00:02:15,470 --> 00:02:16,303 Thank you. 45 00:02:25,270 --> 00:02:27,333 - [Staff] We'll have this available for download. 46 00:02:30,860 --> 00:02:31,900 - [Reporter] Why were there no questions taken? 47 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:33,700 - [Staff] Sure, yeah, we'll go ahead 48 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:35,170 and continue to address your questions. 49 00:02:35,170 --> 00:02:37,773 Please work with Rebecca and U.S. Central Command. 50 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:41,830 This is done for now. 51 00:02:41,830 --> 00:02:44,030 - [Reporter] There was another slide before. 52 00:02:48,086 --> 00:02:52,910 There was a slide, it said smoke trail of shot down. 53 00:02:52,910 --> 00:02:53,948 - [Reporter] So, is there a video? 54 00:02:53,948 --> 00:02:55,070 Is there some sort of, 55 00:02:55,070 --> 00:02:57,450 is there something else that we're not getting? 56 00:02:57,450 --> 00:02:58,540 - I'm not tracking that. 57 00:02:58,540 --> 00:03:00,750 Let me figure out what that was about. 58 00:03:00,750 --> 00:03:03,130 This is the only thing that we were putting out. 59 00:03:03,130 --> 00:03:03,963 - [Reporter] That's it? 60 00:03:03,963 --> 00:03:05,210 - Yeah, for now. 61 00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:06,540 We're working on it. 62 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:08,940 - [Reporter] So, there's no imagery, there's no?