The drone shot down by Israel was an Iranian copy of a U.S. craft, Israel says

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

The drone shot down by Israel was an Iranian copy of a U.S. craft, Israel says

By Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash February 11 at 5:33 PM

JERUSALEM — The drone that Israel said it shot down this weekend appeared to have been developed by Iran from technology obtained when it captured a U.S. stealth aircraft in 2011, according to aviation experts and Israeli officials.

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for Israel’s military, and Yuval Steinitz, a minister in Israel’s security cabinet, said the craft was a copy of a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone, which Iran claims to have reverse-engineered.

Experts who examined footage of the drone being shot down and images of its wreckage released by the Israeli military agreed that the shape strongly resembled that of Iran’s Saeqeh, or “Thunderbolt,” drone, which was based on a CIA-operated RQ-170 captured by Iran.

Conricus said that he could not specifically confirm that the drone was a Saeqeh and that the debris is still being examined. Iran has developed several other models based on the RQ-170.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. The unarmed recon drone was manufactured in Iran. Otherwise nothing to do with Iran. Is israel using

American manufactured F-16s have anything to do with America other than as a sale of arms?

The propaganda and hypocrisy is blatant and in overdrive. Of course the only concern in Western media is over the poor innocent heavily armed WARplane.