A stealthy RQ-170 drone played a critical role in surveilling the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was hiding in the months before the raid in which he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in May. U.S. officials acknowledged Sunday that a drone had been lost near the Iranian border www.abercrombiewholesaleuk.com, but they declined to say what kind of aircraft was missing.The Iranian government has not released any pictures of the recovered aircraft abercrombie fitch sale, which they said was downed by defense forces after it flew across the border and into the country’s airspace. An unnamed Iranian defense official said in one report that a cyber­attack caused the drone to crash.U.S. officials cast doubt on this and other Iranian assertions. “We have no indication that it was brought down by hostile fire Ray ban,” said a senior Pentagon official www.nikefreeschuhe.info, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive surveillance activity.If an RQ-170 drone crashed in Iran, it would mark a significant setback for the U.S. military. The United States has lost less-sophisticated unmanned aircraft in recent years over Iran www.mulberrytasker.info, but a nearly intact RQ-170 could offer a potential windfall of useful intelligence for the Iranians and their allies.The aircraft has special coatings and a batwing-like shape that is designed to evade detection by enemy radar. The aircraft could help the Iranians better understand the vulnerabilities of U.S. stealth technology and provide them with clues on how to spot other aircraft Canada goose jakker, U.S. officials said.Similar stealth technology is used in U.S. B-2 bombers and is a major feature of the military’s F-35 fighter jet, which is one of the largest and most expensive weapons programs in Pentagon history.The first reports of the drone crash came from Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency. “Iran’s army has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,” the Arabic-language al-Alam state television network quoted an unnamed source as saying. “The spy drone Nike free run schuhe, which has been downed with little damage ray ban pas cher, was seized by the armed forces.”Hours after the incident, Iranian state TV news was showing only stock pictures of RQ-170 stealth drones Mulberry tasker, not images from the crash. An unnamed military official told the Fars News Agency that Iran’s response “will not be limited to the country’s borders.”The U.S. military released a short statement later Sunday on the missing drone. “The [unmanned aerial vehicle] to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week www.canadiangoosejakkeudsalg.com,” it said. “The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status.” Related articles：

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