Who's Lying? US denies Iran captured ScanEagle drone over Gulf

[Cidersomerset]

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Published on 4 Dec 2012 by RussiaToday


Tehran has claimed it captured a US spy drone in the Persian Gulf after the unmanned aircraft entered Iranian airspace, Iran's Press TV reported. The US Navy denied the claim, saying that none of its drones in the Gulf region were lost. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/lq365t

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[Billy]

I heard this on the radio today. Hard to say who is lying, But i would believe Iran before the USA. It may not have been a USA drone. Notice they say again "Captured" like the last one. Not shot down but grabbed out of the sky. Keshe said they used his technology to capture the drone last time and brought it down without any damage. I dare say Iran will allow the TV to film the drone.

Hmmm.

[Cidersomerset]

I think the Navy must have miss counted their drones..LOL...Unless its a CIA one !

Of course the CIA denies the existance of everything !!...LOL..



The Guardian.....

http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/poster/2012/12/4/121204IranDrone_6982047.jpg

Iranian TV reports Revolutionary Guards have captured a US drone flying over the country's airspace. They claim the Boeing-made ScanEagle drone was gathering information over Gulf waters when it entered Iranian airspace and was subsequently captured


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/dec/04/iran-us-drone-video


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December 2012 Last updated at 16:49

Iranian TV shows off 'captured US ScanEagle drone'


Images from Iranian state TV of the drone that the country's military says it has captured


Iranian state television has shown images of what it says is an unmanned US drone captured in its airspace.
The Revolutionary Guards said they had brought down a ScanEagle - one of the smaller, less sophisticated drones employed by the Americans.
Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi told the Fars news agency that the drone had conducted several reconnaissance flights over the Gulf in recent days.
But the US Navy said none of its drones was missing in the Middle East.Other nations in the region, including the United Arab Emirates, also
operate ScanEagles - low-cost, long-endurance aircraft with a 10ft (3m) wingspan, Associated Press says.Rear Adm Fadavi said that
"such drones are usually launched from large warships".Fars said the drone was captured "in the last few days" without giving further details.

A spokesman for US Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain said: "The US Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles operating
in the Middle East region."Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognised water and air space.
"We have no record that we have lost any ScanEagles recently."

Last month, the US said Iranian warplanes had shot at a US surveillance drone flying in international airspace. Iran said the aircraft had entered its airspace.
November also saw Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, write to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to complain about what he said
were repeated US violations of Iranian airspace near the Bushehr power station, describing them as "illegal and provocative acts".
A year ago, Iranian TV broadcast pictures of an American RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone that Iran said had been brought down using electronic warfare.
The US said it had malfunctioned.Iran rejected a US call for the return of the drone. It subsequently claimed to have developed its own unmanned drone.
Washington and Tehran are engaged in a dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme. The Revolutionary Guards are an elite unit of the Iranian military which
operate their own naval forces.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20591336

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CNN online..............


Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's navy has captured what it says is a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because the official was 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.

Read more: Key U.S. official defends use of drones

It is not yet clear whether any other branch of the U.S. military or government might have been operating a drone in the area.Iranian state media quoted Adm. Ali Fadavi, of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, as saying the unmanned aerial device was a ScanEagle.The device was spotted carrying out "spying operations" in the Persian Gulf area in the past few days and was captured by Revolutionary Guard anti-aircraft squads, according to Iran's official news agency, IRNA.With a wingspan of just over 10 feet, the ScanEagle is designed to fly for 24 hours or more without refueling and can survive extreme weather conditions, according to itmanufacturer. It can be launched from the ground or from a warship.The ScanEagle is a relatively low-cost, low-tech system and is operated by a number of U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region.

Iran has not given details of exactly how or when it captured the supposed U.S. device.Iran's official Press TV channel showed footage of what was purported to be the drone. No identification markings were visible.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.The latest announcement comes a year to the day after Iran claimed to have shot down another U.S. drone, a high-altitude RQ-170 Sentinel. It created a toy model of the drone, a much more sophisticated device than the ScanEagle, to celebrate its capture.U.S. officials said the RQ-170 Sentinel, a stealth drone developed for the Air Force to help provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, had crashed in the Iranian desert after leaving an airbase in Afghanistan.

Video on link

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/world/meast/iran-us-drone/index.html

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[Selene]

I think the Navy must have miss counted their drones..LOL...Unless its a CIA one !

I think you've nailed it, Cider. The Navy could plausibly deny that "none of theirs is missing..." and that might be the truth but that doesn't say that other agencies etc don't have them as well. And it is one of those "others" that got caught.

The obvious question is why Iran might otherwise claim to have 'captured' a drone if the claim was completely false. What would be the point? If they were merely P/O'd at being overflown by illegal drones, they might claim to have shot one - or more - down for incursion over their airspace to make that point.

But to bring one down intact - with the implication that they've successfully hacked a drone system's software for the second time! is a far more massive security breach, and what must surely have the American brass in a dither.

Cheers,

Selene

[DeDukshyn]

Since the USA has a history of lying about what Iran does with their drones ... ;)

Deja Vu anyone??

[seko]

Iran won't lie like the US administrations do, plus Iran brought one US drone almost a year ago.

It's pretty clear who's lying.

[DeDukshyn]

Iran won't lie like the US administrations do, plus Iran brought one US drone almost a year ago.

It's pretty clear who's lying.

It appears Iran may have certain of technologies that the US doesn't want them to have ... and doesn't want the world to know they have. They call this "Nuclear technology" but I doubt that is the whole picture behind what is happening in Iran. I'm not saying that Iran is the "good" guys, but as far as track records go they're still less "evil" than the Corporate/political USA ... my 2 cents ;)