Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident
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Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident
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On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources disputedly claimed that it had been "shot down". The United States government initially denied the claims but later President Obama acknow
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Iranian capture of a U.S. surveillance drone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident
date created:
2011-12-10T07:49:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:27:26Z
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