Iran’s military on Sunday shot down a US Army RQ-170 unmanned aerial vehicle after it violated Iranian territory in the east, near the Afghanistan and Pakistan borders, local media said.
Al-Alam Arabic language satellite channel, quoting a military source, said the drone was shot down “a few hours ago.”
Fars news agency said the drone had violated Iran’s airspace at its eastern borders. Fars has close ties to the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force in charge of the country’s air defence and missile programmes.
“Our air defence and electronic warfare units managed to identify and shoot down an advanced unmanned spy aircraft — RQ-170 — after it briefly violated the eastern border territory,” Fars said, quoting an unnamed military source.
The drone “was downed with slight damage. It is now under the control of our forces,” the source added, calling the incident “a blatant territorial violation.”
The RQ-170 Sentinel is a reconnaissance drone whose existence was revealed in 2009 by specialised media, and later confirmed by the US Air Force in 2010.
In January, Iran announced that its forces had downed two US drones after they violated Iranian-controlled airspace. It later said it would put the aircraft on public display.
allah ho akbar
shoots*
“shoots down” – dont you people check what you’re uploading?
good job done by them… wondering how they detect it 😀 may be that technique we can use one day as well 😉
itsa a humman mistake …dont make it issue
nyc shoot …iran
Sir,,Iran has its own defined resources we have nothing but rich spoilt brat politicians and their khandaans after khandans,,,running the show,,,we cant afford to do it…be realistic and show some sense and yes we should first try to build our own infrastructure and find our own resources…and share them with fairness every province should get their fair share…..
well we have many resources as well which we might not be aware of… Natural gas, coal, copper etc etc… But we are not utilizing them… Fair share for the province development is ok. but not for personal running the provinces 😀
Iran has oil jabkeh hamaray tilon main tail naheen:-)
very good,,,,
Beshak. Gedar ke 100 sala zindagi. Say sher. Ke. 01. Din. Ke zindagi. Behtar hai. Allah ho Akbar
Asra and Sana Ullah, jab aap ko father ko koi slap karna chahay ya phir bhen ko cherna chahay, tab bhi apni pocket dekh k react karto hain?
No compromise on territory violation. A lesson for Pakistani leadership.
lesson for whom? corrupt leadership?? en ko to koee bhee khareed sakta hay Wajid Sb.
get nip into the bud!
I wonder when is Pakistan army going to be modernsed?
GuD JoB
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