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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran 'showed Russia downed US drones
2011-06-28
IRAN has shown Russia US drones it shot down over the Gulf, Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh was quoted as saying.

"Russian experts requested to see these drones and they looked at both the downed drones and the models made by the Guards through reverse engineering," the official IRNA news agency quoted Hadjizadeh as saying.
How hard can it be to reverse engineer model airplanes? It's the package directing the UAVs and choosing the targets that matters, and that's not to be found in the bits that fell out of the sky.
Hajizadeh did not elaborate on the number or type of unmanned US aircraft it had shot down, or when or where it had done so.

Iran announced on January 2 that its forces had downed two US drones after they "violated" Iranian-controlled territory. It later said it would put the aircraft on public display.

"The planes that were shot down are among the most modern US navy drones and have a long-range capability," the Fars news agency quoted the commander of the Guards' naval forces, Ali Fadavi, as saying at the time.

The US navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, just across the Gulf from Iran.
Washington never confirmed Tehran had shot down any of its drones.
Posted by:tipper

#1  ION IRAN = has announced that it has the ability to manufacture LRBMS of greater range than the variants it curren has, but that it just doesn't need to do so because all US, Israeli Milbases in the ME + Persian Gulf are already within Iran's strike range vee their present arsenal.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-28 19:35  

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