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On 7 February 2013, Iran released video footage allegedly from the RQ-170 stealth plane. They claim the footage shows the drone coming in for a landing at the Kandahar base. Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said that all the data on the downed drone was "fully ...
The Shahed 171 Simorgh (sometimes S-171 and called IRN-170 by the US government [1]) is an Iranian jet-powered flying wing unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) produced by Shahed Aviation Industries. [3] Its design is based on a reverse engineered American RQ-170 UAV captured by Iran in 2011 and modified to carry guided missiles. [3]
A later program of secret drone flights within Iranian airspace, run by the American Central Intelligence Agency, came to light following Iran's capture of a stealth spy drone inside Iranian territory on December 5, 2011. The program entailed frequently sending stealth drones into Iran. [12]
Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details of the Islamic Republic's ...
The former British soldier accused of spying for Iran tells his trial that he deliberately avoided travelling to the country. Alleged spy says he 'sabotaged operation' to travel to Iran Skip to ...
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The Iranian government released footage of a captured RQ-170 on 8 December. [33] After examining the video that same day, U.S. officials confirmed that the drone was genuine. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In April 2012, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh , the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace division, claimed that Iran had reverse ...
The U-2 left Soviet air space and landed at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. It was clear that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had successfully performed an extraordinarily dangerous but productive intelligence operation. The next flight of the U-2 spy plane from Peshawar airport was planned for late April. [4]