Iran Airs A Video Of Its RQ-170 Clone In Flight But Critics Are Labeling It As A Fake

Iran Just Released Video Of A Stealth Drone — But Is It Real? -- Washington Post

Three years ago, a stealthy Air Force RQ-170 Sentinel drone crashed in eastern Iran, highlighting the U.S. government’s surveillance efforts there and inflaming tensions between the two countries. It appeared to mark the first time that a U.S. drone had fallen into enemy hands.



Iranian officials now say that recovery has paid off. They just released video they claim shows a new Iranian drone reverse-engineered from the RQ-170 lost in 2011. That aircraft sustained little damage when it crashed, the Iranian state television state al-Alam reported at the time.



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Update #1: Iran: Pentagon Rebuts Claim on Drone -- NYT

Update #2: Pentagon claims Iran's copy of captured US Sentinel drone 'inferior' to original -- The Guardian



My Comment: It looks real to me .... but I am not an expert.