Possible World War III? U.S. spy plane shot down over Iran

M/Q-9 Reaper -remotely controlled UAV

An American RQ-170 Sentinel type plane was shot down in Iran on Saturday. According to Reuters, the drone crashed in the eastern part of the country. The plane was on a reconnaissance mission and had no crew on board.

However the U.S. denied the allegations over the incident. Instead NATO-led ISAF mission in Afghanistan disclosed that the US drone might be the one which lost contact with flight control center over western Afghanistan last week and now possibly to have crashed somewhere over the border in the neighbouring Iran.

Iran military shot down an RQ-170 plane somewhere in eastern Iran, the Iranian state television -citing an unidentified military source- announced on Saturday.

The unmanned RQ-170 Sentinel aircraft is used in reconnaissance missions and not being designed to carry weapons.

Illustration of RQ-170 Sentinel drone. A similar one was captured by Iran army on Saturday Dec. 3, 2011 after communication malfunction. Credit: wikipedia.org

Pentagon chief, Leon Panetta said Friday that there is no guarantee that any air strikes against Iran regarding its nuclear program will achieve its targets, noting that certain targets are ‘hard to hit’, informs AFP.

Previously the U.S. Defence Secretary has repeatedly expressed doubts with respect to possible air strikes against Iran.
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According to AFP, Friday was for the first time when Leon Panetta, who addressed a meeting organized in Washington, seemed to suggest that Iran’s underground nuclear facilities could withstand such attacks.

A number of diplomatic staff and families of all French officials in Tehran will leave Iran in the coming days, said a French diplomat on Saturday stressing that this decision does not extend to the rest of the French Community.

“It’s a precautionary measure” after Tuesday’s attacks in Tehran on several offices of the British embassy which were totally devastated by several hundred members of theIslamist militias of the regime, said the source.

This attack, condemned by the UN Security Council, has provoked harsh international criticism.

Great Britain closed the Iranian Embassy in London, whose expelled diplomats arrived in Tehran Saturday morning, while several European capitals, including Paris and Berlin, have recalled ambassadors in solidarity.

7 Responses

  1. code.man says:

    RQ-170 is very very very advanced

  2. Tom says:

    That is not the air craft pictured in your article.
    Further more it was not shot down.
    Electronic jaming was used and alloweed it to land, althought not smoothy, on rough ground.

  3. Jordan says:

    Just so you know, the picture at the top of this page is of an M/Q-9 Reaper. This is a link to the real R/Q-170 on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel

  4. foxcrawl says:

    Tom, Jordan, thanks for notice.

  5. matt says:

    how did they(iran) control RQ-170?
    its unbelievable..

  6. alireza says:

    Hi my dear country Iran Hstmmn very glad that the country could do this ourselves Mtjavzgr Phbad Knymayn stop by the electronics was a response to the U.S. invasion of America to resort to rape the country and my country proud I am an Iranian and Shiite Myknmma for
    good bye

  7. RepugH8r says:

    Drones are the weapons of craven pigs – they are nothing but flying dildos designed by white trash conservative american pigs