In 2011, Iran Captured a Stealth US Drone RQ-170.

On December 4th, 2011, an RQ-170 Sentinel was flying over Western Afghanistan, close to Iran's border. When the ground operator lost this stealth drone's control, and the US believed the drone crashed. But in reality, Iran's cyberwarfare unit located in Kashmar city took control of the RQ-170. At first, they cut off the drone's data link to its operator and then took control of its GPS navigation and sent wrong signals to it. They tricked the drone into believing that it was flying over the wrong territory! The Iranians then provided Kashmar's coordinates to the Sentinel, and it landed there intact.

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