Washington – U.S. officials say they are still trying to determine whether the aircraft shown on Iranian television today was the American stealth drone that went down in Iran last week.
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Early Thursday, U.S. officials said, and ABC News reported, that the craft displayed did not appear to be the highly sensitive RQ-170 Sentinel and might be a model, in part because U.S. imagery indicated the Sentinel had not landed intact. Later, however, officials said it was possible that the Iranians had reconstructed the drone for display on television, but that the evidence was “inconclusive.”
Pentagon spokesperson Capt. John Kirby said Thursday that U.S. officials were examining the footage aired in Iran for clues.
“I wouldn’t characterize it just as military personnel looking,” Kirby told reporters. “We’ve seen the imagery. There are folks that are looking at it.”
Kirby could not confirm that the drone shown on Iranian TV was the one the U.S. military admitted it lost, but said that generally speaking, “When U.S. technology falls into the wrong hands, it’s always a concern.”
Every year during Krias Megilla, some person always brings in a “bag of laughs” and plays it very loud right after “vayitlu Haman.”
Cue the bag of laughs.
This story is getting stranger (yet typical) by the minute. I wonder has this will all end.
A child could see it is a fake.
From Fox news: “Yep, that’s it,” the official told Fox News. “And it’s intact.”
So now we have “Chalukei Daios” between Fox and ABC!
Lol! Now we know that the Iranians don’t have it in a useful manner.
like their own lifes its a fake phony and a fraud it mirrers their own life
I immediately smelled something fishy. How do they capture a vehicle with no damage all in one piece. Unless someone provided it as a GIFT, i.e. someone in the Pakistani military using the drones. But that seems unlikely because the drones are handled by the Americans.
“Washington – ABC News: American Stealth Drone Shown on Iran TV Is a Fake”
Did anyone with just a pinch of brain matter think that the Defense Department would say anything else?
Someone needs to give the Iranian rev guard a makeover they look like super nerds, the guys jumpsuit is giving him a wedgy and the von dutch caps are on the wrong spot of the head
Notice that the scary evil american flag has 8 stripes!
It is common knowledge that israel and its enemies have in times of conflict engaged in psychological warfare and the intentional dissemination of missinformation designed to confuse , distorts and overwhelm the enemy.
it seems likely that much of the recent news regarding Iran or israel may not be as accurate as superficial analysis may indicate.
In regards to this specific incident I would question if Iran is taking advantage of America’s lack of knowledge regarding their downed spycraft and pretending that they do indeed have it intact despite the truth that it is in numerous pieces and unusable.
On the other hand it would seem that to accomplish such goals all Iran needed to do was announce in the media that they had indeed taken possession of the downed craft. Why show fake footage which can ultimately be proven as a fake? Unless of course Iran has actually captured the vessel intact and wants America to think they didn’t in which case showing a replica will cause American analysts to conclude as we had said previously that the real vessel is damaged and not in Iranian hands.
Just food for thought ……
Looks as real as a Coney Island kiddie ride.