Tehran Claims They Shot Down With "Little Damage" An RQ-170 Surveillance Drone
Monday, December 5, 2011
U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel Drone - Original illustration by Truthdowser – Found on Wikipedia.org website
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* Fox News brings us the following report that starts off like this… Iran is in possession of a RQ-170 Sentinel drone that went missing over the Islamic Republic, U.S. military sources told Fox News on Monday… The Sentinel is the same kind of stealth high tech drone that was used to monitor the compound during the raid that killed Usama bin Laden in Pakistan, the sources said… The sources confirmed the Iranians have the drone, however, they did not say that the Iranians shot down the spy plane, as was reported by Iran's official IRNA news agency…
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* The Telegraph has this take on the missing US Drone news... Tehran claims to have brought down with "little damage" an RQ-170 surveillance drone, considered one of the most secret aircraft in the world, flying inside eastern Iran… The seizure of the unarmed surveillance drone intact would give access to a treasure trove of classified information including the designs of the aircraft and its payload of sensors… However it was unlikely the drone had escaped a crash or being shot down without significant damage and its sensitive technology was probably rigged with self-destruct mechanisms, experts added… Suspicion surrounds the claims because Iran has yet to release any footage of the captured drone or its wreckage… NATO forces confirmed a drone went missing in Afghanistan near the Iranian border last week, though would not say what kind it was…
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POST UPDATE:
Thursday, December 08, 2011
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* BBC brings us the following report, with short news video and it starts off like this… Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed near the Afghan border… Images show Iranian military officials inspecting the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft which appears to be undamaged… US officials have acknowledged the loss of the unmanned plane, saying it had malfunctioned.. However, Iranian officials say its forces electronically hijacked the drone and steered it to the ground…
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