US Navy launches stealth drone X-47B, makes aviation history
Reuters | Wednesday May 15, 2013
The US Navy made aviation history on Tuesday by launching an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first time, taking an important step toward expanded use of drones by the American military with an eye on possible rivals like China and Iran.
US Navy's UFO-like stealth drone X-47B targets aviation history
Reuters | Tuesday May 14, 2013
The US Navy plans to make aviation history on Tuesday by catapulting an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first time, testing a long-range, stealthy, bat-winged plane that represents a jump forward in drone technology.
Iran says it has captured a foreign 'enemy drone'
Associated Press | Sunday February 24, 2013
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.
Iran airs images allegedly extracted from US drone
Associated Press | Thursday February 7, 2013
Iran's state TV has broadcast footage allegedly extracted from the CIA drone captured in 2011. The video aired late Wednesday shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Iran claims shooting down two US-made RQ-11 drones
Agence France-Press | Wednesday January 2, 2013
Iran on Wednesday said it had shot down two US-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims to have captured.
Iran says it decoded data from captured CIA drone
Associated Press | Monday December 10, 2012
Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Monday said it has decoded all of the data from an advanced CIA spy drone captured last year.
Iran says data extracted from US spy drone
Reuters | Wednesday December 5, 2012
Iran has obtained data from a U.S. intelligence drone that shows it was spying on the country's military sites and oil terminals, Iranian media reported its armed forces as saying on Wednesday.
No US drones missing after Iran claim: Navy
Associated Press | Tuesday December 4, 2012
Iran claimed on Tuesday it had captured a US drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf- even showing an image of a purportedly downed craft on state TV - but the U.S. Navy said all its unmanned aircraft in the region were "fully a...
Iran 'captures' US drone over Gulf waters: guards
Agence France-Presse | Tuesday December 4, 2012
Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed on Tuesday it had "captured" a small US drone over Gulf waters after it entered Iranian airspace on an intelligence-gathering mission.
Gunmen kill 18 people in roadside restaurant in Pakistan
Associated Press | Saturday July 7, 2012
Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at a roadside restaurant in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 18 people, officials said. In the northwest, a U.S. drone strike killed 12 suspected militants near the Afghan border. The people killed in the re...
Iran says it is building copy of captured US drone
Associated Press | Sunday April 22, 2012
A senior Iranian commander says that the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is the Chief of the Aerospace Division of the po...
Iran says it is building copy of captured US drone
Associated Press | Sunday April 22, 2012
A senior Iranian commander says the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.
Iran promises to return US drone-as a toy
Associated Press | Wednesday January 18, 2012
Iranian state radio says Tehran will give the United States a model of the American surveillance drone captured by the Islamic Republic.
Iran to put captured US drones on display
Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday December 18, 2011
Foreign spy drones captured by Iran, that reportedly include four Israeli and three US aircraft, will be put on display, Mehr news agency reported. Latest "domestically-manufactured electronic warfare equipment" will also be shown.
US drone captured by Iran is now its "property"
Agence France Presse | Wednesday December 14, 2011
A US drone captured by Iran is now the "property" of the Islamic republic, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday, dismissing a request by US President Barack Obama for its return.
