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Iran heralds UAV copied from US model

November 20, 2014
A handout picture released by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on May 11, 2014 shows him (C-L) sitting next to the captured US RQ-170 sentinel high-altitude reconnaissance that crashed in Iran on December 2011 and its locally made copy while visiting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force exhibition in Tehran. Khameni said that Iran will not limit its ballistic missile programme as the United States, Israel and some European countries have demanded. AFP PHOTO/HO/IRANIAN LEADER'S WEBSITE ==== RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / IRANIAN LEADER'S WEBSITE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ====

Iranian television has shown the test flight of a UAV that the country's military claims to have made based on reverse-engineering an American RQ-170 Sentinel that crashed in 2011, Agence France-Presse reports.

The downed UAV that the Iranians used was apparently on spy mission, trying to get information on Iran's nuclear sites, according to the report. Iran claimed to have taken control of the craft and forced it down, while American officials claimed the crash was the result of technical malfunction.

The plane shown in the broadcast looks very much like the downed American UAV, AFP reported.

Read the full report at Defense News.

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