Iran military shoots down US drone: State TV

[Muhammad Waleed]

TEHRAN: Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, a military source told state television.

"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying. (Reuters)
REUTERS

http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=27923

[TheHK16]

well done

[akheR]

They know how to deal with them, great. :junaid

[DeadlyVenom]

Well done, very different to the drones that attack us though before anybody makes stupid comparisons.

[Atif]

If only Pakistan had the balls to do so.


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[Markhor]

Ironically an RQ-170 drone was deployed in the Bin Laden operation. Pakistan take the hint.

[Muhammad Waleed]

Ironically an RQ-170 drone was deployed in the Bin Laden operation. Pakistan take the hint.

Didn't get you.??

[Markhor]

Didn't get you.??


Because if you read your OP...

TEHRAN: Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, a military source told state television.

"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying. (Reuters)
REUTERS

[Fawad2010]

Didn't get you.??

Because if you read your OP...

I think he was referring to the drone's participation in Bin Laden Raid. It was indeed used for that, here is a source.


Iran Says It Shot Down Unmanned U.S. Plane

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran's armed forces shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that violated Iranian airspace along the country's eastern border, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.

An unidentified military official quoted in the report warned of a strong and crushing response to any violations of the country's airspace by American drone aircraft.

"An advanced RQ-170 unmanned American spy plane was shot down by Iran's armed forces. It suffered minor damage and is now in possession of Iran's armed forces," IRNA quoted the official as saying.

No further details were published.

Iran is locked in a dispute with the U.S. and its allies over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, which the West believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and that it seeks to generate electricity and produce isotopes to treat medical patients.

The type of aircraft Iran says it downed, an RQ-170 Sentinel, is made by Lockheed Martin and was reportedly used to keep watch on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan as the raid that killed him was taking place earlier this year.

The surveillance aircraft is equipped with stealth technology, but the U.S. Air Force has not made public any specifics about the drone.

Iran said in January that two pilotless spy planes it had shot down over its airspace were operated by the U.S. and offered to put them on public display.

The Islamic Republic holds frequent military drills, primarily to assert an ability to defend against a potential U.S. or Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities.

Tehran has focused part of its military strategy on producing drones for reconnaissance and attacking purposes.

Iran announced three years ago that it had built an unmanned aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles, or 1,000 kilometers, far enough to reach Israel.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled Iran's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft in August 2010, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204770404577078160095550518.html

[Fawad2010]

I bet there is some panic in US administration over this, this particular drone was kept a secret for a long time, and now Iran has it, not that Iranians need it because they have their own drones. But its always good to know the capabilities of enemy's weapons.

[KingKhanWC]

Regardless of which drone this isn't the first time Iran has downed one. Good on them. I feel sorry for the fat kid eating his Mcdonalds in some military base in the US. Game over kid.

[Markhor]

"An advanced RQ-170 unmanned American spy plane was shot down by Iran's armed forces. It suffered minor damage and is now in possession of Iran's armed forces," IRNA quoted the official as saying.

The surveillance aircraft is equipped with stealth technology, but the U.S. Air Force has not made public any specifics about the drone.

Iran said in January that two pilotless spy planes it had shot down over its airspace were operated by the U.S. and offered to put them on public display.
Lol so not only is Iran developing its nuclear weapons, thanks to the US its air force has become stronger :)) Credit to them for having an idea of national self-respect. Pakistan should take note, we have a strong air force but have been caught napping twice now.

[Ismailtoca]

Pakistan should follow suit

[ali85]

Deep down, Iranians realize Allah is supreme and is the one protecting Iran. America's arrogance is in front of everybody now - Iran (or Persia) has been around since beginning of time, their cultural and scientific and philosophical contributions dwarfs that of the New World's. Does America think they can rewrite human history?

Rome was strong once and look at it now. English ruled the World but now it is even hard to locate them on World map.

[cricket_fever]

atleast the iranians have some "ghairat".......pakistan r u watching?

[Looney]

lets make ourselves feel better by telling us that we have nukes :jinnah

[Khabri420]

Good on Iran. Our phattu government and army need to learn a thing or two.

[whyamir]

The US is really trying to elicit some sort of retaliation.....welcome to WW3?

[Qelic]

Perfect !

now this stealth craft can be studied for reverse engineering . I am sure a R & D group from NTU and Malik Ashtar university has already been setup .

ISAF is claiming that it went missing over western afghanistan and iran says it hacked into the Cotrol system of UAV and brought it down .... Its nothing new btw , Iran has been shooting drones since 2003 while Israel and US airforces both have shot iranian UAVs too . Israel evn showed wreckage of one Iranian UAV that Israeli F-16s shot down during 2006 war ...

US UAV's communication system was also reported few months back to be easily hacked by Hezbollah and Iraqi insurgents .... Iran possess a separate cyber warfare unit for this purpose .

[zimmz]

Iran electronically hijacked and captured the american drone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562

[Itachi]

Regardless of which drone this isn't the first time Iran has downed one. Good on them. I feel sorry for the fat kid eating his Mcdonalds in some military base in the US. Game over kid.

ha ha. +1 for making my day.

[Cracket]

http://i.imgur.com/sIVnG.jpg


^that's the drone. lol US how did you let Iran capture your most advanced top secret weapon.

[GOAT]

http://i.imgur.com/sIVnG.jpg


^that's the drone. lol US how did you let Iran capture your most advanced top secret weapon.

Pakistan also has pieces of their top secret stealth helicopter.

The end for American military dominance is nigh. Nigh.

[KingKhanWC]

That's only ugly looking robot. I hope he's not cleaning or shining it. :))

[Strike!]

They actually hacked it to land there, Very impressive. No doubts Americans should be feeling embarrassed and rightfully so.

[Eagle_Eye]

Pakistan also has pieces of their top secret stealth helicopter.

The end for American military dominance is nigh. Nigh.

They have a predator drone as well....... Tanzeel can tell us.

[Black Zero]

They actually hacked it to land there, Very impressive. No doubts Americans should be feeling embarrassed and rightfully so.

so should expect another one this weekend?

[Qelic]

I never realized how effective and lethal iranian electronic warfare capabilities have become in past 5 years ... all kind of radars , ECM , surveillance satellites , air defense systems ... all is made inside iran now and this event shows their efficiency ... few yrs back it was rumored that IRGC have formed a cyber warfare unit stationed at Khatam ul Anbiya base for this purpose now .... seems to me that it can be confirmed now

it also shows how strong iranian air defense system is that no conventional Fighter aircraft can enter iranian airspace now .... no 4 or 4.5 generation aircraft can !

This tech will help iran in project Sofreh Mahi Stealth UCAV which is being developed and also in Safagh fighter aircraft .... both r due in 2013 .... iran right now makes 5 types of drones for surveillance and 2 types of UCAVs for ground attack . During recent tension with Saoodi arabia ... karrar ucavs armed with air to ground weaponry were moved to persian gulf forward bases .

[zid60]

Someone just made a thread which is related, he posted this link on the thread:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/12/09/MNP71MA9P3.DTL

[zid60]

http://i.imgur.com/sIVnG.jpg


^that's the drone. lol US how did you let Iran capture your most advanced top secret weapon.

Its funny though Iran will do anything. Lots of countries would be scared to do lol.

[12cavalry]

Iran airs footage of downed US drone

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qD82u_IvH0o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Impressive stuff from the Iranians...Amreekis were pwned!

[velu]

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6058/rq170iniran.jpg

Iran is doing everything to make US :pissed:

[Abdullah22]

apparently it's a fake hmmm :13:

[Qelic]

^ u fly one ?

[zid60]

apparently it's a fake hmmm :13:

Lol wouldn't be surprised but than again it may not be fake but it could be a conspiracy :ibutt

[Black Zero]

Tehran claims to reverse-engineer RQ-170 Sentinel, adding Iran is producing 'more than 20 types of drones' and intends to export

Iran has released video footage and still images Tehran claims were extracted from a US surveillance drone it captured two years ago as evidence of the Islamic republic's capability to decode the secret data obtained by the spy aircraft.

State-run television broadcast a programme on Wednesday night about Iran's advances in drone technology that featured a poor-quality video that the narrator said was recorded by an RQ-170 Sentinel drone.

In December 2011, members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards put on show a US unmanned aerial vehicle they claimed to have brought down electronically. US officials later confirmed the aircraft was captured in Iran but insisted it malfunctioned and was not brought down.

At the time Barack Obama appealed for the return of the spy drone, but a Guards commander refused, saying the aircraft's flight over Iran amounted to a hostile act against the Islamic republic and a violation of its airspace. Iran then promised to investigate the drone's technology and produce it domestically.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Guards' airspace division, narrating on Wednesday's TV programme, said: "We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down.

"After we decrypted the data … we realised that this aircraft had made a lot of flights inside regional countries."

The state-run English-language Press TV said on Thursday the footage shown was made by a camera positioned on the drone's underbelly, which also filmed a US military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Hajizadeh claimed that the drone's data has been "fully decoded". It could not be immediately verified if Iran had indeed decrypted classified video or merely shown what was recorded by a camera installed on the aircraft.

After the seizure of the drone, Hajizadeh said, there was speculation the US would send forces into Iran to destroy its remains, but he did not believe the Americans would take that risk.

The programme's broadcast coincided with the anniversary celebrations of the 1979 Islamic revolution, a period of two weeks when Iran often puts on display its latest scientific, military and technological progresses.

Tehran's claims of military advances are often met with scepticism in the west. Last week, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended an unveiling ceremony for what was claimed to be a domestically built stealth fighter jet capable of operating at low levels. Military experts have since cast doubt on the authenticity of the claims.

Since Iran seized the RQ-170, the country has claimed advances in its drone industry and has exhibited a number of US and Israeli drones allegedly brought down from its airspace.

In September, the Guards unveiled what it claimed was a new "indigenous" reconnaissance drone capable of reaching Israel. Shahed-129 (or Witness-129) was claimed to have a range of up to 2,000km and capable of 24 hours of flight.

In December, a Guards commander said his forces had their hands on a US ScanEagle unmanned drone, which, he added, was being produced in mass domestically. Ali Fadavi was quoted at the time by Iranian agencies as saying that Iran has captured a total of three ScanEagles. US authorities denied those claims at the time, saying all its unmanned air vehicles were fully accounted for.

Wednesday's TV programme also showed pictures of ScanEagle drone production line in Iran.

Mohammad Eslami, a deputy defence minister, said in the programme that Iran was producing "more than 20 types of drones", adding that Tehran intended to export its unmanned aircraft, including Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.

"With Lebanon locating in Iran's strategic depth, they can use our facilities and achievements," he added.

Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said in October that a drone shot down by Israel was assembled in Lebanon but designed in Iran. Iranian officials confirmed his comments.

[KingKhanWC]

Any link for footage?

[Black Zero]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/07/iran-footage-cia-spy-drone

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BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says that if the Iranians have really managed to break into the systems of the pilotless aircraft, this would suggest a level of sophistication that may worry the US.

American officials have previously cast doubt on Iran's ability to extract useful intelligence from the captured spy plane, and have said that reverse-engineering a copy would be beyond Iran's technological capability.

[KingKhanWC]

Iranians probably hit the jackpot! Extracting various detailed footage including possible future targets.

[GenericBrand]

Oh damn Murika should definitely be quivering in their boots now, Iran has their drone!

[shan]

Iran should worry more about well being of Iranis, even with so much oil the standard of living isnt much better then 3rd world country. Learn something from GCC countries because oil will soon run out.

[lilFlip]

Iran should worry more about well being of Iranis, even with so much oil the standard of living isnt much better then 3rd world country. Learn something from GCC countries because oil will soon run out.


Should they buy over-priced cars and consume like there is no tomorrow?

Iran is going on right path. They've some 'political' issues but every country has these kind of issues.

[shan]

Should they buy over-priced cars and consume like there is no tomorrow?

Iran is going on right path. They've some 'political' issues but every country has these kind of issues.

If they can afford it then why not? Look at average citizen of GCC countries and Iranis.

[Black Zero]

Iran should worry more about well being of Iranis, even with so much oil the standard of living isnt much better then 3rd world country. Learn something from GCC countries because oil will soon run out.

GCC countries are puppet states...
Iran is suffering by sanctions for last 33 years..

If USA stop supporting GCC, we can expect libya/tunisia/egypt style revolution within 3/4 years time.

[shan]

GCC countries are puppet states...
Iran is suffering by sanctions for last 33 years..

If USA stop supporting GCC, we can expect libya/tunisia/egypt style revolution within 3/4 years time.

Puppet or not but look at them. Iran had more potential then GCC countries can ever have but extremist goverment and hatered against west is the reason they are so much behind.

[Black Zero]

Puppet or not but look at them. Iran had more potential then GCC countries can ever have but extremist goverment and hatered against west is the reason they are so much behind.

I think they are doing better than most of arab countries...
there is a thread specific to technological advances of Iran ...
you may refer to it...


the main thing is Iran doing everything by themselves...

[speed]

Remove sanctions and Iran will become superpower of the middle east, they are far ahead of the arabs in education, technology and infrastructure.

[khanz141]

Puppet or not but look at them. Iran had more potential then GCC countries can ever have but extremist goverment and hatered against west is the reason they are so much behind.

GCC are puppets and soon they will be way behind the rest of the world once their money runs out because they rely heavily on the west to do everything for them. Every single technology of theirs is imported from outside.

Iran on the other hand is very advanced technologically. They make most of their technology themselves because of the bans imposed on them. They could have been one of the richest nations in the world had they not have so many bans imposed on them but even then they are a pretty good solid economy(certainly a 100 times better than the always begging Pakistan).