(Business Insider) U.S. officials told ABC News that the drone shown on Iranian TV today is not real.
Martha Raddatz, Lee Ferran, and Luis Martinez report:
Minutes after a Pentagon spokesperson said that military personnel and others were examining the footage broadcast today of what appeared to be an undamaged stealth RQ-170 Sentinel, multiple U.S. officials said that based on inconsistencies with the design of the drone, along with clues from imagery of the actual drone’s crash site, the drone shown was not the Sentinel. U.S. officials previously confirmed that an RQ-170 did, in fact, crash land somewhere in Iran.
For nearly an hour, Iran’s Press TV played and replayed footage of two uniformed military men examining the pristine-looking cream-colored frame of what was supposedly the RQ-170. (via @CuffyMeh)
Questions were raised immediately by the pristine condition of the craft, which flies at tens-of-thousands-of-feet and the draping of the aircraft’s complex landing gear.
