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Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said that the country's radar and air defense units are monitoring and tracking all stealth aircraft flying in the region and have even warned them.

"We have issued warnings to (alien) reconnaissance planes which approached our borders and they responded to our alerts and moved away from our borders Esmayeeli told FNA on July 2.

He explained that around 10 percent of the information available about the current situation of stealth reconnaissance planes or fighter jets are presented by the manufacturing country, but "we have to be fully informed of their situation and operations because if their flight times and schedules escape our 100 percent monitoring, then we will be doomed to fail and get surprised,' he said.

Esmayeeli also explained that the stealth technology used by reconnaissance planes is the same as the technology used in the US F22 fighters, a number of which have been deployed in the UAE.

Earlier, Iran has downed several US drones, a number of which use the same stealth technology that F22 does. Iranian experts have reportedly reproduced these downed aircraft after conducting reverse engineering on them.

According to Iran's officials' claims, the Iranian experts in December 2011 hacked the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft and brought it down it by hacking its control system and uploading a new program to it.

Also earlier this year, Iran displayed its most advanced UAV designed and manufactured by the country's engineers.

The stealth drone, named Hemaseh (Epic), was unveiled in a special ceremony in the presence of Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi.