WatchIRANIAN state TV has broadcast video of what it says is the high-tech US drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, and lodged a diplomatic complaint over the violation of its airspace.
The more than two minutes of footage showed Iranian military officials inspecting what state TV identified as the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, and offered the first evidence that Tehran had captured the aircraft. The beige-coloured drone appeared intact and undamaged.
The chief of the aerospace division of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards, General Ami Ali Hajizadeh, claimed Iranian forces brought down the surveillance aircraft with an electronic ambush, causing minimum damage to the drone.
“It was downed through a joint operation by the Guards and Iran's regular army,” he told state television.
Tehran appeared to be using the video footage to score propaganda points, and a banner at the foot of the drone in the video read “The US cannot do a damn thing” - a quotation from Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini. Another banner was printed to look like the American flag, but had skulls instead of stars. Read the rest on:
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