Saturday, February 23, 2013

Iran claims the IRGC Captured another foreign Spy Drone.


Iran claims the IRGC Captured another foreign Spy Drone.(DM).Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency has reported that IRGC forces have force-landed a foreign spy drone inside Iran. The drone was reportedly observing the IRGC ground forces maneuvers, code named Great Prophet 8, underway near the southern city of Sirjan. The type and nationality of the captured drone have not been announced. IRGC Brig. Gen. Hamid Sarkheili, the spokesman for Great Prophet 8 exercises, told reporters that IRGC air defense units had detected signals indicating that foreign drones intended to enter the country’s airspace, and one of them was captured near the area of the exercises. Gen. Sarkheili added that the landing of the drone has been captured on film and will be shown publicly if the military commanders so choose. (Fars News Agency, 23 February) Earlier, Mehr, another semi-official news agency, had reported that IRGC forces observed a foreign drone near the area of the maneuvers but it did not say the drone was captured. 'While probing signals in the area, we spotted foreign and enemy drones which attempted to enter the area of the war game,' the official IRNA news agency quoted the general as saying. 'We were able to get one enemy drone to land.' Read the full story here.More here and here.

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