MQ-4C Triton Drone's Fate Unknown After Disappearing From Radar Over Strait Of Hormuz!

James Kaufman will do his report today. MQ-4C Triton's fate unknown after disappearing from radar over the Hormuz Strait. I think we all know what happened to this state-of-the-art drone that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. They all need self-destruct buttons. Because this is our latest and greatest and could very well end up in the hands of China or Russia. Tracking data shows the MQ-4C rapidly losing altitude to declaring an unspecified in-flight emergency. Here we can see the three-hour patrol and really what they did here. Let's continue. The U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone disappeared abruptly and unexpectedly from and online flight tracking sites after declaring an in-flight emergency while flying over the Persian Gulf today. The uncrewed aircraft was also tracked rapidly losing altitude right beforehand, prompting widespread questions about its fate. This comes just two days after the United States and Iran agreed to a still very fragile ceasefire, which is heavily contingent on the reopening of the highly strategic strait of Hormuz. We all know Trump got played and the straits were never reopened and no one sees fire except for the U.S. probably has no ammunition left. Online flight tracking data show the MQ-4C had just completed a roughly three-hour-long flight over the Persian Gulf and the strait of Hormuz. It appeared to be returning to base at Naval Air Force Station Sigonella in Italy. The online tracking shows the Triton had just crossed into Saudi Arabian airspace before making a sudden turn to the northeast in the direction of Iran. Available data also shows the drone rapidly descended from a typical cruising altitude of around 50,000 feet down to below 10,000 feet. It sounds like they electronically took it over. The MQ-4C's transponder was broadcasting the code 7700, which is a general declaration of an in-flight emergency at the time. The code by itself does not offer any indication of what the emergency might have been or how serious the situation was. There are also unconfirmed reports that the Triton initially sent out another code, 7400, which is used to declare a loss of connectivity between a drone and its controllers on the ground. Again, they probably electronically took it over. The MQ-4C had otherwise been publicly visible online from the moment it left the Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy. Tritons have been flying sorties over the Middle East as well as other locales in Sigonella regularly since 2024. As of 2025, the Navy had 20 of these state-of-the-art drones in service in total, with plans to acquire seven more. The service received the funding to purchase the final drones in fiscal year 2024, at which time the estimated unit cost for each one was pegged at just over $238 million. dollars these of course have gone undelivered i want to show you the telltale maneuver here first the 7400 code and then the 7700 code and here we are returning to Italy a sharp turn to the right and right into Iran but you better believe it you know Iran's been known to take over our drones, several different versions electronically and control them and land them safely. That is a lot of technology to be giving up to Iran, China, Russia, and the rest of the bunch. God bless you guys. We all know exactly what happened as usual. Please share and subscribe. Always remember, anything is possible in Bizarro World.