Iran Claims to Have Replicated Downed Advanced American Drone

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall - Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohammad Ali Jafari announced on May 11 that Iran had succeeded in replicating an advanced, U.S. radar-evading, unmanned aerial vehicle (the RQ170 stealth drone). There have been many Iranian claims in recent years that it has succeeded in constructing a number of UAVs with stealth technology, though it is not clear how much truth there is in these claims.


2014-05-13 00:00:00

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