{"id":9855,"date":"2026-04-02T05:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/02\/iran-shoots-down-16-us-mq9-drones-war-cbs-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:16:17","slug":"iran-shoots-down-16-us-mq9-drones-war-cbs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/02\/iran-shoots-down-16-us-mq9-drones-war-cbs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Shoots Down 16 US MQ-9 Drones Since War Began, CBS Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reputable American network has reported that since the onset of the war between Iran and the United States, 16 advanced American MQ-9 Reaper drones have been shot down by Iran. According to CBS, these drones are among the strategic and costly military equipment of the US. <\/p>\n<p>The report estimates the approximate value of each drone at around 30 million dollars, with total damages nearing 500 million dollars. MQ-9 drones are typically used for reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeted operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports Iran has shot down 16 advanced US MQ-9 Reaper drones since the war began, causing nearly $500 million in damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}