Last week, the Pentagon announced that one of its high-tech, high-value stealth unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) had disappeared in Afghanistan on December 4. The presumption was that it had crashed.
However, a few days later, the RQ-170 Sentinel drone showed up intact - on Iranian television.
The Iranians said they had snatched control of the UAV away from its American pilot (probably operating the craft from a facility in Nevada) and safely landed it in Iran. Observers are debating that assertion. Some think it crashed in Afghanistan and was recovered and transported to Iran by the Taliban. Others say that Russia and/or China gave Iran the technology to seize control of the aircraft.
The bottom line, though, is that the Iranians now have our most valuable stealth technology, and we have only their word for how they got it.
Blessings,
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