May 14, 2014
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) looks at Iranian-made Sarir drone during Army Day parade at the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in southern Tehran, Iran on April 18, 2013.
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Iran claims to have copied U.S. drone
TEHRAN, May 12 (UPI) --Iran announced on Sunday that it has copied a U.S. drone "commandeered" in 2011. The RQ-170 Sentinel drone, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, was allegedly "brought down by the Iranian Armed Forces' electronic warfare unit" in December 2011, reported Iran's Tasnim News Agency.