TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's military has shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and has threatened to respond to the violation of Iranian airspace, a military source told state television Sunday.

"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying.

"The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces."

Iran shot down the drone at a time when it is trying to contain foreign reaction to the storming of the British embassy in Tehran Tuesday, shortly after London announced that it would impose sanctions on Iran's central bank in connection with Iran's controversial nuclear enrichment program.

Britain evacuated its diplomatic staff from Iran and expelled Iranian diplomats in London in retaliation, and several other EU members recalled their ambassadors from Tehran.

The attack dragged Iran's relations with Europe to a long-time low.

"The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders," the military source said, without elaborating.

The United States and Israel have not ruled out military action against Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear dispute.

Iran has dismissed reports of possible U.S. or Israeli plans to strike Iran, warning that it would respond to any such assault by attacking U.S. interests in the Gulf and Israel.

Analysts say Tehran could retaliate by launching hit-and-run strikes in the Gulf and by closing the Strait of Hormuz. About 40 percent of all traded oil leaves the Gulf region through the strategic waterway.

Iran said in July it had shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane over the holy city of Qom, near its Fordu nuclear site.

(Additional reporting by Ramin Mostafavi, Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Tim Pearce)

Izvor

Svaka cast Irancima. .

Iran oborio bespilotnu letelicu SAD

Odgovor Teherana na povredu vazdušnog prostora Irana koju je izvršila američka bespilotna letelica neće biti ograničen samo na granice te zemlje, rekao je državnoj iranskoj televiziji jedan vojni izvor.

"Iranski vojni odgovor na američku špijunsku letelicu i njenu povredu našeg vazdušnog prostora neće više biti ograničeno našim granicama", prenela je iranska televizija "Al Alam".

Letelica RQ170, koja nije mnogo oštećena, sada je u rukama iranskih oružanih snaga, prenela je iranska agencija Fars.

Ovu letelicu proizvela je firma "Lokid Martin" i navodno je korišćena za osmatranje kompleksa Osame bin Ladena u Pakistanu tokom operacije u kojoj je ubijen, prenose agencije.

Iran je posvetio, sa svoje strane, veći deo svoje vojne strategije proizvodnji izviđačkih bespilotnih letelica, a pre tri godine je saopštio da je proizveo bespilotnu letelicu sa dometom od 1.000 kilometara, što je dovoljno da dosegne Izrael.
Iranski predsednik Mahmud Ahmadinedžad "krstio" je 2010. prvi domaći bespilotni avion i nazvao ga "ambasador smrti" za iranske neprijatelje.

Američka letelica je oborena u vreme kada je Teheran u napetim odnosima s Vašingtonom i njegovim zapadnim saveznicima zbog spora oko iranskog nuklearnog programa.

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2011&mm=12&dd=04&nav_id=563022

Opa! Oborili je sa malim ostecenjima  ("downed with little damage..." ) - sto ce sada da ceprkaju po njoj; poslastica.

Iran poslednjih godina ulaze velika sredstva u razvoj bespilotnih letelica.Ovo im je ko poklon sa neba za njihova buduca istrazivanja.
Bice zanimljivo videti sa kojim PVO sistemom je oboren RQ170. .

Pa skinuli su je necim sto je nije skroz razbucalo - moguce da je nesto manje, ne raketno, ko zna? Znas kako se u narodu kaze: "svaka tica svoga kobca ima!", he, heee!

U svakom slucaju veliki udarac za Ameriku.Ipak se radi o letelici koja je poslednja rec tehnologije i u ciji je razvoj ulozeno mnogo godina i para.Nema sumnje da ce Kina dobiti sve podatke od Irana.

U mad,Ameri? 


U jednoj vesti/tekstu je pisalo da su je "oteli" elektronskim napadom... 


Uh,da...   

Drone 'shot down' in Iran may belong to US

A surveillance drone flying over western Afghanistan had gone out of control late last week and may be the one Iran said it had shot down over its own airspace, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has said.

"The UAV to which the Iranians are referring may be a US unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status," an ISAF statement said on Sunday.
 
The statement was issued in Kabul and released to reporters covering an international conference on Afghanistan in the German city Bonn.

A US official told the Reuters news agency that there is "absolutely no indication" up to this point that the drone that crashed in Iran was shot down.

Iranian media reported on Sunday that its forces had brought down an unmanned US spy plane.
 
"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted an unnamed source as saying on Sunday.
 
The state news agency IRNA and the semi-official Fars news agency reported that the plane is now in the possession of Iran's armed forces. The Fars news agency is close to the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

Fars reported that the drone had been brought down through a combined effort by Iran's armed forces, air defence forces and its electronic warfare unit after the plane briefly violated the country's airspace at its eastern border.

The drone "was downed with slight damage. It is now under the control of our forces," Fars reported, quoting an unnamed military source.

The source warned that Iran's armed response would "not be limited to our country's borders" for the "blatant territorial violation".

Al Alam state television network reported the same news on Sunday.

Other 'downed drones'

Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, told Al Jazeera that Iran has made similar claims even as recently as July.

"It could be quite feasible but we don’t know yet. What we do know is that in the absence of any diplomatic channels, incidents like this can have tremendous repercussions. Far greater then when there were some de-escalatory mechanisms in place between the United States and Iran."

In January, Iran also announced that its forces had downed two US drones after they violated Iranian-controlled airspace.

It said it would put the aircraft on display to the public, but there has been no indication it ever did so.

In June, Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Guards' aerospace unit, said Iran had shown Russian experts the US drones in its possession.

"Russian experts requested to see these drones and they looked at both the downed drones and the models made by the Guards through reverse engineering," he said.

Hajizadeh did not specify how many US drones were shown nor gave any details of the copies Iran was said to have made of the aircraft.

The US military and the CIA routinely use drones to monitor military activity in the region.

They have also reportedly used them to launch missile strikes in Yemen as well as in Afghanistan and in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.

Iran holds frequent military drills, primarily to assert an ability to defend against a potential US or Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities.

Iran is locked in a dispute with the US and its allies over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, which the West believes is aimed at the development of nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its programme is entirely peaceful.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/2011124185143288993.html

Masala!!!!

Iran pokazao snimke RQ-170.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562

Deluje dosta ocuvano. .