Iran state television displays 'downed U.S. surveillance drone'

Haaretz ^ | Published 18:28 08.12.11

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

WATCH: Revolutionary Guard top officer tells Fars news agency that military experts are 'well aware how precious the technological information of this drone is.'

• Published 18:28 08.12.11
• Latest update 18:28 08.12.11

Iran state television displays 'downed U.S. surveillance drone'

WATCH: Revolutionary Guard top officer tells Fars news agency that military experts are 'well aware how precious the technological information of this drone is.'

By Haaretz

Tags: Iran threat Iran

Iraninan state television displayed what it said was a downed U.S. surveillance drone on Thursday, days after U.S. officials expressed concern that Tehran would be able to glean information about a classified military program.

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		Iranian military officials inspecting what they say is a U.S. drone, Dec. 8, 2011.
	Photo by: Iran TV

According to the semi-official Fars news agency, in the televised segment, commander of the Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Forces Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that Iranian forces uncovered the aircraft as it was about "to infiltrate our country's airspace for spying missions."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

[gaijin]

Oh no, that accessory panel is where the SAND SPIDERS are stowed...!

HEY: Why in hell would they show this? Wouldn’t they want to keep us in the dark about how MUCH they’d recovered?

[omega4179]

Crude welds at wing root, no landing gear. Its a mockup

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Islamic Republic of Iran superior technology diverted and downed the CIA's most advanced stealth UAV.

[ColdOne]

This was unmanned?

[onyx]

Well, this should shut the mouth of that smug Judith Miller.

[ColdOne]

Crude welds at wing root, no landing gear. Its a mockup So you are saying we are telling the world it is a ours, but a mockup?

[Da Bilge Troll]

Crude welds at wing root, no landing gear. Its a mockup

Crash damage maybe?

[manc]

no because there were 3 plans to either get it back or blow it up and obama gave the order to do nothing because he did not want to cause a war with Iran.

Commando teams were ready to go and plans done but now lets just let them have our tech and hey who cares right I mean he gave our best ally the Uk nuclear submarine secrets away to the Russians and now look at how the relationship is.

This leader we have is a complete idiot and stupid and certainly an embarrassment.

[chemicalman]

“Where’s that button for the self destruct????”

[gandalftb]

That “aircraft” shown by the Iranians has major differences from an RQ-170.

It’s a fake.

[manc]

oh no what is the liberal hack saying now?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Here an Islamic Republic technician chases CIA's low-flying, radar-evading stealth UAV and downs it.

(Images obtained through google, sources are in the link.)

[molson209]

at .47 in the video you can see damage on front of the wing and why cover the landing gear or shots from behind ,but LOL that dolt pointing at things and the other dolt nodding

[knarf]

" ... obama gave the order to do nothing ... "

Please cite the reference

[manc]

On the news earlier,

He knew about this and plans were put into place, Jennifer Griffin who has a lot of respect reported this by sources in the Pentagon.

Teams were either to blow it up or try and take it but obama feared that if they went in then Iran would not be happy and obama thought it could cause a war with them thus they now can flaunt this system before us and have no fear from this country.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

FAKE!

[tet68]

I thought the red white and blue flag with skulls
a nice touch though.

[eeriegeno]

“Where’s that button for the self destruct????”

That's what I asked myself too? It seems that the genius designers forgot about that little detail!