Iran Unviels the Captured US drone : Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel

 Iran has shown footage of the most advanced US reconnaissance drone which was downed by the Iranian armys electronic wing in the eastern part of the Islamic Republic earlier this week.The US has violated International law by entering Iranian airspace. In a letter to Swiss ambassador to Tehran Iran denounced the growing US provocative and secret moves against the Islamic Republic.
"The move is in violation of all international rules and regulations and runs counter to regional and international peace and security. Surely the responsibility for the illegal move lies with the US authorities," it added.
   Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh Thursday evening appeared in a TV report to explain how Iranian forces downed the United States' highly advanced radar-evading spy drone last week
"Recently, our collected intelligence and precise electronic monitoring revealed that this aircraft intended to infiltrate our country's airspace for spying missions," the General said, and added, "After it entered the Eastern parts of the country, this aircraft fell into the trap of our armed forces and was downed in Iran with minimum damage."

PressTV has shown footage of the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone that Iranian electronic warfare troops brought down intact.

Press TVs footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4vGszQhJw

BBC

The RQ 170 Sentinel is United States most advanced stealth UAV and is among the highly sensitive surveillance platform in the CIA's fleet that was shaped and designed to evade enemy defenses.
The RQ-170 has been used by the CIA for highly sensitive missions into other nations' airspace, including months of surveillance of the compound in Pakistan in which Osama bin Laden was hiding before he was killed in a May raid by Special Operations forces.
Current and former US defense officials said even the US military cannot use such a highly sophisticated stealth aircraft as it is in relatively short supply and is only flown by the CIA.
Iran announced on Sunday that its defense forces downed the aircraft through a sophisticated cyberattack.
The RQ-170 has special coatings and a batwing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected. The existence of the aircraft, which is made by Lockheed Martin, has been known since 2009, when a model was photographed at the main US airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan.




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IRGC Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh provided these details
“After the aircraft's entry into the country's eastern [air]space, it fell in the electronic ambush of the Iranian Armed Forces and was brought to the ground with minimum damage [caused to it],”

“The recently-collected intelligence and precision electronic surveillance have made it clear that the drone aimed to infiltrate our country's airspace and conduct espionage [activities],”

Meanwhile, Iran has announced that it intended to carry out reverse engineering on the stealth aircraft, which is also known as the Beast of Kandahar and is similar in design to a US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber.