Tehran, YJC. Iran’s armed forces have unveiled RQ170 drone under its command.
Iran’s Supreme Leader visited an
exhibition of the IRGC Air Force on Sunday.
The biggest item on the show was
RQ170, a drone which the IRGC has called the American nightmare.
It was around two and a half years
ago when Iran caught the US RQ170. Now they have successfully flown the
machine.
The drone whose full name is Lockheed
Martin RQ-170 Sentinel was supposed to be America’s big shot military
advancement. That’s why its capture by Iran raised quite a lot of eyebrows.
On 4 December 2011, media reports
stated that the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit had downed an RQ-170
that violated Iranian airspace along its eastern border through overriding its
controls, and had captured the lightly damaged UAV. The United States
Department of Defense released a statement acknowledging that it had lost
control of a UAV during the previous week, claiming that it was "flying a
mission over western Afghanistan" when control was lost. The statement did
not specify the model of the aircraft. The U.S. government also stated that it
was still investigating the cause of the loss.
IRGC second in command has said that
due to security considerations the details of how Iran managed to reuse the
machine are to be kept secret adding "It is only through Reductio ad absurdum
than one can make out Iran’s capability in hunting this big game.”