| IRGC: US Spy Drone’s Data Fully Extracted |
“Yes, we have fully extracted the drone’s information...,” the IRGC Public Relations Department said on Wednesday, referring to the ScanEagle drone -- a long-endurance aircraft built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing.
“The drone, in addition to gathering military information, used to pursue gathering information in the field of energy, especially the transfer of oil from Iran’s oil terminals,” the department said.
It said that the capture of the aircraft helps discovery of “what kind of information they (the Americans) are after.”
Regarding the US denial of the existence of the aerial vehicle in its drone fleet, the department said, “The reaction, the Americans have to the capture of their drones indicates the importance of this matter to them. This is not something they can easily deny.”
The manner by which the aircraft was captured by the IRGC is very important and “it can even be said that the drone’s getting entangled in the IRGC Navy’s security net is more important than the [capture of] the RQ-170 [Sentinel] drone,” it said, referring to the Iranian military’s last-year downing of an intruding US drone, which was flying over the northeastern Iran city of Kashmar.
Source: Press TV
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| Local Editor | |
 On
the anniversary of downing the US RQ-170, Iran has announced Tuesday that
Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) forces hunted a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) ScanEagle flying over the Persian Gulf after it violated Tehran's
airspace.“The US drone which has been spotted carrying out spying operations to collect information in the general zone of the Persian Gulf in the past few days, was captured by the IRGC Navy’s anti –aircraft squads and control units immediately after entering the Iranian airspace,” a statement by the IRGC read.  Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced the drone capture, which Iran believed it was gathering intelligence on Islamic Republic, adding that "such drones are usually sent to mission from large warships". Fadavi further announced the readiness of the IRGC Navy forces to carry out all kinds of missions as well as their ultimate intelligence coverage and control over aliens’ movements in the strategic region of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, state-run IRNA news agency posted.  The UAV which had conducted several reconnaissance flights over the Persian
Gulf general zone in the past few days was caught and brought under control by
air defense units and control systems of the IRGC Navy, Iranian Fars news agency
reported.ScanEagle is a small, low-cost, long-endurance portable unmanned aerial vehicle with an infrared built-in camera. It entered service first in 2005 by Boeing. It has been reported that ScanEagle had major roles in the US-led war on ‘terrorism’ in Afghanistan. This is the second time Iran hunted a US spying drone hovering over its airspace within twelve months. The first time was downing a RQ-170 aircraft on December 4 2011. |
Iran Captures US ScanEagle Drone over Persian Gulf
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