Iran has launched the production line of ScanEagle drones, Navy Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced.

Iran has launched the production line of ScanEagle drones, Navy Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced Monday, adding that the Islamic Republic has downed three drones of this type.

On the sidelines of the Seminar on Geography, Development, Defense and Security, rear admiral Ali Fadavi, said "the production line of ScanEagle drones has been has been installed in Iran, and stressed that the information of the two captured drones has been decrypted.”

The U.S. ScanEagle drone, one of which was recently captured by the IRGC in the Persian Gulf, was the third aircraft of its kind downed by Iranian forces, Fadavi was quoted as saying.

On Dec. 4, Iran's naval force of IRGC had downed an U.S. drone over the Persian Gulf in Iran's waters.

The Navy Commander stated that since long time IRGC Navy and Air Force has brought ScanEagle into use, the products being operated for missions. He also said that ScanEagle is a hi-tech device, with 30 hours flight endurance.

This drone has broken the flight record with 1.5 millions of hours.