{"id":3055,"date":"2018-02-13T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2018-02-13T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:09:40","slug":"the-drone-shot-down-by-israel-was-an-iranian-copy-of-u-s-rq-170-spy-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/13\/the-drone-shot-down-by-israel-was-an-iranian-copy-of-u-s-rq-170-spy-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DRONE SHOT DOWN BY ISRAEL WAS AN IRANIAN COPY OF U.S RQ-170 SPY DRONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced: The Washington Post<\/p>\n

By Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for Israel\u2019s military, and Yuval Steinitz, a minister in Israel\u2019s security cabinet, said the craft was a copy of a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone, which Iran claims to have reverse-engineered.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s Saeqeh, or \u201cThunderbolt,\u201d drone, which was based on a CIA-operated RQ-170 captured by Iran.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Image sourced: IDF<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/israel-confirms-downed-jet-was-hit-by-syrian-antiaircraft-fire\/2018\/02\/11\/bd42a0b2-0f13-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.0c83ac55b222<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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