Posted on 10/01/2016 8:31:53 AM PDT by keat
Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a home-built drone that they said was capable of carrying bombs, state media reported on Saturday, in what appeared to be another copy of a reconnaissance U.S. drone that Iran captured five years ago.
The drone, called Saegheh, or lightning, was unveiled at an expo showcasing the latest achievements by the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace arm.
"This long-range drone is capable of hitting four targets with smart precision-guided bombs with high accuracy," the head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace arm, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
The Guards did not demonstrate the drone's abilities and did not say what range it had.
Photograph carried by the Tasnim news agency showed the Iranian drone looked similar to the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel aircraft that was captured in eastern Iran in 2011. Iranian media said the Iranian model was based on the U.S. one.
U.S. President Barack Obama asked Iran to give back the drone which belonged to American forces in neighboring Afghanistan, but Tehran said Washington should apologize for spying on the country with unmanned aircraft.
TRUMP/Pence - 2016
Do they mean the Top Secret drone that Obama landed intact so it could be completly copied in the first year of his destroy America tour.
And of course obama shipped pallets of cash over to the mad mullah muslims to finance their little reverse-engineering project.
Oh hell, he probably emailed them the build prints through hitlery’s bathroom server.
Wouldn’t put it past this treasonous scum.
I’ve barked my knuckles pretty badly on those bad-boys in the past!
Those were more likely handed over by the Naval vessel that got "lost" of Farsi Island in January.
Wouldn’t put it past that treasonous bastard.
Allahu Akbar is prerecorded so the Drone Pilot doesn’t have to shout into the mic
Sure they are.
Pretty amazing how it just decided to land itself intact in Iran, huh?
Yes I remember how no one could understand that this top secret drone safely landed in Iran without any reason.
Similar to the 63 Navy Seals killed when procedure was ignored and all of them got on 1 copter instead on many.
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