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US Admits Defeat: Iran Downed Our Secret Mission Drone

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As the Islamic Republic of Iran scored a victory against US most high-tech unmanned surveillance plane, Central Intelligence agency admitted that the defeat.

"It was was a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA," US officials admitted.

Stating that "Iran's military appears to be in possession of one of the more sensitive surveillance platforms in the CIA's fleet," US officials unveiled that "the aircraft that was shaped and designed to evade enemy defenses."

Meanwhile, the mission of the downed drone remains unclear.

The RQ-170 has been used by the CIA for highly sensitive missions into other countries' airspace, including months of surveillance of the compound in Pakistan in which Osama bin Laden was hiding before he was killed in a May raid by Special Operations forces.

According to these officials, the US has built up the air base in Shindad, Afghanistan, with an eye to keeping a long-term presence there to launch surveillance missions and even special operations missions into Iran if deemed necessary. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified information.

The officials claim that "while no specific mission into Iran has been authorized, the military has contingency plans for such clandestine missions."

The RQ-170 has special coatings and a batwing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected. The existence of the aircraft, which is made by Lockheed Martin, has been known since 2009, when a model was photographed at the main US airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org