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Iran claims to shoot down RQ-170

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  1. alexD

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iran-says-it-downed-us-stealth-drone-pentagon-acknowledges-aircraft-downing/2011/12/04/gIQAyxa8TO_story.html?tid=pm_pop

    After reading a whole bunch of articles on this and reading all of the quotes from the Pentagon, it sounds plausible that we have actually lost an RQ-170 to Iran. I don't believe it was actually shot down if they have it, but the one thing that makes me believe it's possible that it was lost is that one of the anonymous officials was quoted as saying an "unarmed" surveillance drone. Since they haven't specified what kind of drone, which is unusual, that means it must be at least somewhat sensitive/serious. That leaves either the Globalhawk, RQ-170, or some other classified drone. As far as I know, Globalhawks are mostly autonomous so that seems less likely.

    Hopefully this is wrong..that would be a huge loss if Iran recovered one of these..even pieces of it...and Russia/China was able to get their hands on it.
     

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