Iran Shows Alleged U.S. Stealth Drone on TV

An aircraft that appears to be the highly sensitive American stealth drone lost in Iran looks intact and with little visible damage in new video broadcast on Iranian television today.
The cream-colored RQ-170 Sentinel is shown sitting on display in front of a patriotic Iranian poster as two uniformed military men examine the drone's radar-eluding batwing frame.

The RQ-170, known as the Beast of Kandahar, is one of America's most advanced unarmed surveillance drones -- so sensitive that the Air Force did not even acknowledge its existence until last year. It was reportedly used to keep tabs on the man believed to be Osama bin Laden during the Navy SEAL mission that took out the terror leader in Pakistan in May.

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Wow... its not even damaged.
US is worried about Iran getting nukes, they just gave them stealth technology.

On 4 December 2011, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported that the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit[23] had downed an RQ-170 that violated Iranian airspace along its eastern border and captured the lightly damaged wreckage of the UAV, claiming that they had succeeded in hijacking its controls

Kind of scary if true.. I didn't know it was so easy to hack the controls of a drone.

For anyone curious, the posters hung allegedly read:
"America cannot do a damn thing", a quote from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the other "We will crush America under our boots.

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What we are not seeing in that picture are the russians and chinese military people whom taken down that little thing

I like it .I like it ....for those that might say ,show me the picture or it didnt hapen,, well ...peace

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give the chinks and the ruskies a breake ...not all powers want or need the photo ops ....peace
ok so I guess someone has a vid ...

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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For something was has supposedly crashed/been shot down, it sure seems pretty well in tact.

I'm not buying what they're selling.

A different image:

Or maybe it's our Trojan Horse.

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Originally posted by projectvxn
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For something was has supposedly crashed/been shot down, it sure seems pretty well in tact.

I'm not buying what they're selling.

A different image:

edit on 8-12-2011 by projectvxn because: (no reason given)

Those look like 2 completely different planes...I'm not buying it either.

any pics to a actual RQ-170

very clearly different planes. The one the Iranians put on video doesn't appear to have rear stabilizers. Something is definitely afoot. But then, it has been for a while. . .

If you google image RQ-170..then there are a whole host of pics that dont show the rear stabilizer. Is this pic posted above of the drone in flight accurate and actually an RQ170
? If so, how many different versions of the RQ-170 are there?!

haha wow how'd they do that??

Here's the video

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As we know now the US did lose this drone over Iran, deep in Iranian airspace. It is thought that the Russian or Chinese specialists helped with taking control of the drone, to bring it down.

Not a proud moment for the US and it's covert operations wing.

Sad to see ....really.

The Chinese have just been confirmed as the largest group, government directed, to be hacking into all the USA data bases, corporate and government. The US has admitted they had a very large amount of top secret information stolen by hackers based in China. The loss to US companies alone in trade secrets totals over 100 billion dollars.

There may be real problems ahead...the drone capture looks like the start of something new.
Makes you wonder what might be next,.

Later, John

Not got much time so can't post new thread starter as mental at work today but new foreign drone taken down by Iranians over central Iran www.presstv.com...