Iran`s Revolutionary Guard denies drone capture

Tehran: Iran`s powerful Revolutionary Guard is denying that it captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.

A spokesman for the Guard, Yasin Hasanali, told The Associated Press that the drone was actually being used during the drill as a supposed enemy aircraft. Iranian media yesterday quoted a spokesman for the Guard as saying that its electronic warfare unit had taken control of a foreign drone`s navigation system and forced it to land during the site of the military exercise. Iran has claimed to have captured several US drones, including an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel CIA spy drone in December 2011 and at least three ScanEagle aircraft. The Guard`s military exercise, code-named Great Prophet-8, ends Monday. PTI