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Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country's military had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a U.S. official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down. NATO's U.S.-led mission in neighbouring Afghanistan said the Iranian report could refer to an unarmed U.S. spy drone that went missing there last week.

The incident comes at a time when Tehran is trying to contain foreign outrage at the storming of the British embassy on Tuesday, after London announced sanctions on Iran's central bank in connection with Iran's nuclear enrichment programme.

Iran has announced several times in the past that it shot down U.S., Israeli or British drones, in incidents that did not provoke high-profile responses. "Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted a military source as saying.

"The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces," the source said. "The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders."

Iranian officials were not available to comment further. NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said in a statement: "The UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week.
"The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status." A U.S. official, who asked not to be named, said: "There is absolutely no indication up to this point that Iranians shot down this drone."
 
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US officials have expressed concern at the loss of a drone near Iran's eastern border with Afghanistan.
A Pentagon spokesman said the US were worried especially as the unmanned aircraft was "in a place where we're not able to get to it".
Iranian media say the drone was shot down and was now in the hands of the armed forces. It said the plane had suffered minimal damage.
The drone, known as a Sentinel, is the first such loss by the US.

US Navy Capt John Kirby, said the US was "concerned" about Tehran's opportunity to acquire information about the technology. "I think we're always concerned when there's an aircraft, whether it's manned or unmanned, that we lose, particularly in a place where we're not able to get to it," the Pentagon spokesman said. NBC News reported that the drone was on a CIA mission at the time, but it was unclear if it was flying in Afghanistan or Iran.

Some analysts argue that Iranian military forces will not be able to replicate the technology - if they have found useable parts at all. "This is a high-flying unmanned aircraft that malfunctioned and then fell to earth. It's likely to be broken up into hundreds of pieces," defense analyst Loren Thompson told the Associated Press news agency. 'Sensitive mission'

In a statement at the weekend, the Nato-led Isaf force said: "The UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] to which the Iranians are referring may be a US unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status."
The RQ170 Sentinel is a stealthy and highly capable unmanned aircraft. It is shaped like a large flying wing similar to the profile of the manned B2 stealth bomber. Its shape and materials give it a low radar signature and it is clearly used for some of the most highly sensitive mission, says BBC defense and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus. First spotted at Kandahar air base in Afghanistan in 2007, an RQ170 Sentinel was used by the Americans to provide real-time intelligence over Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, both before and during the raid by US special forces earlier this year.

Iran said in July it had shot down a drone over the holy city of Qom, near its Fordu nuclear site. Last January, it said it downed two "Western spy drones" in the Gulf, but produced no evidence to support the report.
 
how to spend billions in RD, make one, and hand it over to iran to reverse engineer..God I love the Air Force..
 
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if apple can brick a cell phone remotely at will, it seems like sending a 6 million dollar drone into enemy airspace should be able to be blown up as well. Heck, keep a thermite charge on it. If it loses contact, or whatever... it could just self destruct, instead of allowing the tech to be dissected.
 
:hmmm?: So the pen, shipping, and processing fee brings the total to roughly $272,436,218,974.62, we're going to need a bailout to afford this pen. Don't even get me started on the price of the paper we'll have to invade another country to afford it.

Oh, I understand now...the Pen is actually more expensive than the Sword.
 
news thing said they were thinking about it, but felt it could be considered an act of war if they attempted to blow it up
 
Obama Asks For Drone To Be Returned

Several days after being humiliated by Iran which either shot down a EQ-170 drone, or worse, hacked into its navigation system and landed it, Obama has decided to double down. As ABC reports in connection with Obama's handling of this embarrassing predicament, ""We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond." Obama said he wouldn't comment further "on intelligence matters that are classified." The only problem is Iran will never return it, as they have already indicated.

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