Iran Haunts US ScanEagle Drone over Persian Gulf

[Harry_Thomason]

US has sanctioned Iran on everything except for Drones , they give them out for free too

(c) maydayfire

 

[Sugarcane]

why this mother f***ing Western propaganda put Irans nuclear program in all reports about Iran ???

Part of campaign - In today's world if you keep repeating lie than it becomes truth

 

[hassana]

There is something about Iran that makes me say "I Salute You." Pakistan has a lot to learn from Iran!

Me too i think they have got it together, and those Indians Pakistanis Turkish who used to mock iranian achievements probably hiding somewhere with shame. Salute Iran, good going, keep it up.

 

[Harry_Thomason]

Its surprising though, this drone is very small, and territory Iran's radars has to cover is very large, how on Earth they detected it? Israel with the most advanced radars cant detect small drone even in tiny area. Does Iran possess the best radars in the World or something?

 

[IRIAF]

Hi

bravo iran, bravo IRGC ,Bravo Iranian Armed Forces

1-capturing RQ-170
2-Hezbollah Drone "aiioob"
3-Hamas FAJR-5 Rockets
4-Shoot on MQ-1 over Persian Gulf
5-Capturing ScanEagle
6-...
7-...
8-...
....
these incidents will be continued...

other strike actions are in the way.

Ya ali.

 

[Harry_Thomason]

"Al-Alam, the Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel, showed two Guard commanders examining what appeared to be an intact ScanEagle drone."

If it wasnt shot down, how they brought down the drone intact? If the same way as RQ-170, then its on US not fixing the issue. Or Iran found a new way to "hack" the US drones?

Iran claims capture of another US drone - Yahoo! News

Comments are priceless:

* I thought we were done shipping weapons to Iran!!!

* the number one export of the usa is drone technology to iran.

* Damn drone was running Windows 8...I told them to hold off on the upgrade.

* Obama gave Iran their Christmas present early this year . Do all muslims exchange gifts for the holidays or is it only the one that lives in the White House?

 

[hassana]

Its surprising though, this drone is very small, and territory Iran's radars has to cover is very large, how on Earth they detected it? Israel with the most advanced radars cant detect small drone even in tiny area. Does Iran possess the best radars in the World or something?

Why not , they might have who knows, day by day it,s getting interesting though.

 

[sreekimpact]

Iran claims seizure of U.S. drone over Persian Gulf

Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A unit from Iran's navy has captured a U.S. drone flying over the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian state media reports Tuesday.
The drone, which was collecting data, was captured immediately after entering Iranian airspace, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is cited as saying by the state-run news agency IRNA.

However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that whatever the Iranians claim to have, it is not an actively operating U.S. Navy drone.
"The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operating in the Middle East region. Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space," the source said.

he internationally recognized territorial limit is 12 nautical miles off the coast.
Iranian state media quoted Adm. Ali Fadavi, of the Revolutionary Guards, as saying the unmanned aerial device was a ScanEagle.
The ScanEagle, with a wingspan of just over 10 feet, is designed to fly for 24 hours or more without refueling and can support extreme temperatures and high winds, according to its manufacturer. It can be launched from the ground or from a warship.
Iran's Press TV showed footage of what purported to be a drone.
Last month, the Pentagon said Iranian jets had fired on a U.S. drone as it flew off the Iranian coastline in the northern Persian Gulf.
The armed MQ-1 Predator was on a routine surveillance mission above international waters, 16 miles off the coast, the Defense Department said.
A year ago, a high-altitude RQ-170 Sentinel crashed in the Iranian desert after leaving an airbase in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. Iranians claimed to have shot it down, and created a toy model of the drone to celebrate its capture.

 

[RFS_Br]

NYT's reporting on the story as well.

--Edit--
According to the NYT story, the Americans are denying Iran's claim.

But fact is, even if Iran is telling the truth, and I think it is, it will take some time before the US admits to the loss. It was like this the last time. Because of the US government's silence on the issue, many in the US media were doubting Iran's claims about the downed RQ-170, going so far as to say that the drone's design didn't look modern enough to be a US drone -- until Obama suddenly asked Iran to send the drone back.

 

[farhan_9909]

with such actions Iran has just confirmed that we might not be as strong as you but disturbing our sovereignity is not acceptable at any cost

 

[raptor22]

 

[kollang]

dustan!boycott laqv...in khabar kheyli mohemme
dorud bar Iran!

btw.when will you return back our rq-4?

dont you wanne understand who we are?

 

[kollang]

comment from reza 18 from IMF

I would think they use both passive and active... Passive for painting the drone and active for directing whatever action's needed to bring it down...

ayatollah khomeinie said :US nor soveit cant do sh*t to you.....that mullah was right!

 

[raptor22]

As you see it's intact , now Americans come and say it's just a mock-up , it's not real it's fake .

 

[Harry_Thomason]

As you see it's intact , now Americans come and say it's just a mock-up , it's not real it's fake .

They did exactly the same last year with RQ-170. Iran already got its moral victory, showed the video, now its "borrow the technology" time