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by VladRussian 5307 days ago
>I'm willing to bet the original crashed and burned and that this is a mockup.

this is after falling from 20km height after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Would be enough to produce a very closely resembling mockup :

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/u2-wreckage....

>Iran doesn't have the resources to land one of these intact, themselves.

Pretty much the same believe was held about Soviet Union surface-to-air capabilities before the U2 incident (and the belief was true right to exactly the point of the accident as it did took 14 missiles to score the hit)

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The interesting thing is that the video doesn't show anything which can't be found off the Internet or easily assumed.

I didn't say it was impossible, considering they likely have support from China and possibly Russia. It's just highly, highly unlikely in my opinion. And they're not going to just "jam" GPS and make it think an Iranian airport is it's home base. It doesn't work like that.