Iran claims seizure of U.S. drone over Persian Gulf
A unit from Iran's navy has captured a U.S. drone flying over the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian state media reports Tuesday.
The drone, which was collecting data, was captured immediately after entering Iranian airspace, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is cited as saying by the state-run news agency IRNA.
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However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that whatever the Iranians claim to have, it is not an actively operating U.S. Navy drone.
"The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operating in the Middle East region. Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space," the source said.
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America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.
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drones are so yesterday
. . . we are not scaring anyone with the drones anymore !
So THAT's where my RC plane went!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahahah
. . or maybe I like to lie to myself so I can feel better and the drone captured proves that Iran is not a country that can be mess with.
Maybe the military wanted this drone to be captured as a way of providing fake technology information.
So put a Towel Head in it and try to fly it!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahhaa
The hypersonic D-21 reconnaissance drones even in ‘1960s’ had the self destruction mode.
Sayan.
Drones should have a provision for self-destruction if interrupted in their missions.
Sayan.
Most do, including the RQ-170 that Iran supposedly captured last year.
Iran should send the drone back to Washington and drop a load on the Whitehouse.LOL
Too late for that, the drone technology is already lost.
They've obviously got to start building these things with remotely triggered self-destruct 'mechanisms' included so that if they're captured they can be destroyed!
Yeap self destroy whenever the drone detects an iranian near by and blows the MF to pieces.