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Iran Claims Downing 'Foreign Spy Drone'

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14:12 24/02/2013

Tags: stealth, military exercises, RQ-170 Sentinel drone, drone, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, CIA, Hamid Sarkheili, Payambar-e Azam 8, Iran, USA

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Alleged US spy drone “ambushed” by Iran

MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have brought down a foreign reconnaissance drone during a military exercise in southeast Iran, the official news agency IRNA reported.

“A foreign spy drone was hacked outside the field of Payambar-e Azam 8 wargames on Saturday,” spokesman for the military exercise, General Hamid Sarkheili was quoted by the agency as saying.

The agency gave no details of the origin of the drone.

Iran has claimed to have captured several US drones. In December 2011, Iran said it had captured a CIA spy drone that had entered its airspace. Iran claimed to have extracted top-secret data from the stealth-technology equipped RQ-170 Sentinel drone.

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Veselko3It was a mock drone . Press Tv info
16:10, 24/02/2013
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has successfully taken control of the mock enemy's reconnaissance drone on the first day of the Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8) military drills, which are being held in the southeastern province of Kerman.
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