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Stealth Drone Proliferation:  Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Stealth Drone Proliferation: Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

contributors 11/13/2014

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Press TV: |

“Iran has released a video showing the test flight of an Iranian-made version of the captured US RQ-170 spy drone.

The stealth drone was designed and made in less than three years and will be ready for surveillance, combat and other related missions in the next few months. The RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft was downed by the Iranian armed forces electronic warfare unit in 2011. Tehran had announced that it intended to carry out reverse engineering on the captured aircraft, which is similar in design to a US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber. The drone is one of America’s most advanced spy aircraft.”

PressTV News Videos: “Iran releases video showing test flight of its RQ-170 version”

Filed Under: Drones, Iran, National Security State, Surveillance, US Foreign Policy, US politics

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