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http://en.rian.ru/onlinenews/20060530/48833304.html
19:06 | 30/ 05/ 2006


TEHRAN, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - A pilotless Iranian reconnaissance
plane circled for 25 minutes over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf
before returning safely to its base, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday.

"Our pilotless reconnaissance plane flew over the USS Ronald Reagan
in the Persian Gulf unnoticed to the Americans for 25 minutes," the official said,
according to Iran's Fars agency.

He did not say when the flight took place, but added that U.S. radars picked
up the unmanned aerial vehicle after 25 minutes, and that four USAF fighters
and two helicopters were scrambled to intercept it. However, the Iranian plane
had already crossed the border back into Iran and landed at its base.

"This points to holes in the U.S. military reconnaissance systems deployed in the
Persian Gulf," the Iranian official said.
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Mon ikke Iranerne stadig husker USS Vincennes i stunder som disse,,,
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/military_blunders/mb_iasd.html
the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger jet that it had
mistaken for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft.

U.S. Navy Captain Will C. Rogers III ordered a single missile fired from
his warship, which hit its target and killed all 290 people aboard the commercial airbus.


Jan Rasmussen