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Summary Iran has put on display highly sensitive American stealth drone it captured only days ago.
The drone looks intact and with little visible damage in new video broadcast on Iranian television.The cream-colored RQ-170 Sentinel is shown sitting on display in front of a patriotic Iranian poster as two uniformed military men examine the drones radar-eluding batwing frame.The Iranian military claims it downed the drone through a cyber attack as it was flying through Iranian airspace last week.US military officials said the drone was not flying over Iran, but rather in western Afghanistan, and suffered malfunction before gliding into Iranian airspace.Pentagon spokesperson Capt John Kirby told reporters Monday there was no indication the drone was brought down by hostile activity of any kind.US officials said the drone had been on a secret surveillance mission for the Central Intelligence Agency when its operators lost control.The CIA declined to comment both when Iran claimed to have the drone and after video surfaced today. Irans semi-official Fars News Agency reported that the drone was designed to automatically destroy sensitive data in the case of a malfunction, but in this case it failed to do so.
