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A pilotless Iranian reconnaissance plane circled for 25 minutes over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf before returning safely to its base, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday. "Our pilotless reconnaissance plane flew over the USS Ronald Reagan in the Persian Gulf unnoticed to the Americans for 25 minutes," the official said, according to Iran's Fars agency. He did not say when the flight took place, but added that U.S. radars picked up the unmanned aerial vehicle after 25 minutes, and that four USAF fighters and two helicopters were scrambled to intercept it. However, the Iranian plane had already crossed the border back into Iran and landed at its base. "This points to holes in the U.S. military reconnaissance systems deployed in the Persian Gulf," the Iranian official said.


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lemontree

If it were true, do you think they would let out this secret and allow the USN to correct errors?...

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-{SpoonmaN}-

Well they claim the USN had picked it up on radar so it would have been no secret to them.
Small unarmed target drones are one thing, lets see them get some Tomcats over a CVBG and not lose them, then I'll be impressed.

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TillerNOS

Don't believe the hype....

Bluesman

It did not happen. I was in the briefing on this.

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-{SpoonmaN}-

Never said I believed them, only that I'm not impressed if it's true. Anyway the crisis is winding down and it should be pretty clear that neither side was really going to go to war over the nuke issue so consider this point irrelevant.