Iran Shhots Down US Spy Drowne

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Back in Oct I said the USA was lining up to attack Iran, and here it is, but they got there fingers burnt.

TEHRAN - Iranian armed forces on Sunday downed an unmanned U.S. spy drone along Iran’s eastern border, Iran’s media reported.

The wreckage of the Lockheed-Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone was largely intact after it was downed, the Fars news agency said.

“Iran’s army has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,” Arabic-language al-Alam TV said, quoting an anonymous source.

“The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the armed forces,” the news network added.

The cyber warfare unit managed to take over controls of the drone and bring it down, a military official said, according to the TV.

An unnamed military official also told the Fars that Iran’s response “will not be limited to the country’s borders.”

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The stealth drone that Iran says it shot down last week was involved in a CIA fact finding mission involving the Agency and US military forces in Afghanistan.

CNN spoke to two US officials who said they didn’t believe the drone was flying in Iranian airspace because the RQ-170 is capable of drawing intel outside the country’s borders.

This is the first time US officials have conceded the lost drone was, in fact, an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel.

After the drone’s crash officials looked at all options for retrieving or bombing the wreckage, but all were rejected as “impractical.”