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Monday, January 3, 2010, 08:40 AM

 
Iranian army military forces have shot down several UAV spy planes of foreign forces.
 
 
Iranian military forces have shot down several spy planes of foreign forces, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday, adding that two of these planes have been shot down over the Persian Gulf.
     
Iranian military forces have shot down several spy planes of foreign forces, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday, adding that two of these planes have been shot down over the Persian Gulf.
Iranian UAV unmanned aerial vehicle during a military parade
     

Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told "Payam Engelab" (Message of the Revolution), an internal publication of the IRGC, that western forces in the region have made limited aggressions against Iran, and "we have, thus far, shot down a large number of their highly advanced spy planes".

"Two of these planes have been shot down in the Persian Gulf," Gen. Hajizadeh continued.

The commander said that Iran has shot down many foreign planes, but did not reveal it to the media, "and this is the first time that we reveal this news".

He declined to mention the exact date and location of the development.

After shooting down these planes the IRGC aerospace unit has copied and produced them in large numbers through reverse engineering, the commander added.

This is the second time Iran announces that it has shot down western aircraft. In January 2007, an Iranian lawmaker told FNA that Iranian military troops have shot down a spy plane of the US army.

Representative of Dasht-e Azadegan at the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh told FNA at the time that the aircraft was a spy drone of the US army and that it had been shot down when trying to cross the borders.

"Americans send such spy drones to the region every now and then," the lawmaker further pointed out.

Also in May 2010, Commander of the Iranian Army Major General Ataollah Salehi said that Iran's air-defense units shooed away a US military reconnaissance plane seeking to approach the Iranian Army's wargame zone in the Strait of Hormuz and Northern Indian Ocean.

"Yesterday a US reconnaissance plane sought to approach our region but it left the area after receiving a prompt warning from the Army's air-defense (unit)," Commander of the Iranian Army Major General Ataollah Salehi told reporters on May 11.

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