(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121204-scaneagle-drone-1225a.photoblog600.jpg)Jim Watson / AFP - Getty Images, fileInsitu's ScanEagle, an autonomous aircraft system, launches during the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) demonstration day at Naval Air Station Pax River Webster Field Annex in St. Inigoes, Maryland, on August 10, 2009.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) By NBC News staff and wire reportsUpdated at 5:35 a.m. ET: The U.S. Navy said Tuesday that it had not lost any drones over the Persian Gulf recently after Iran claimed to have captured one in its airspace.
The semi-official Fars (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107124058) and the state-run IRNA (http://old.irna.ir/News/Politic/IRGC-captures-spying-US-drone/80441110) news agencies reportedthat a U.S. ScanEagle drone was gathering information over Gulf waters and had entered Iranian airspace.
The agencies said the drone was then captured by a naval unit of the Revolutionary Guards force.
However a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain denied the claim.
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