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Moderator
I highly doubt its a mock up. The thing was only announced missing like a week.
Would they waist that much time and effort building molds, and getting specs so close to the real thing to try and fool us.
It would take alot of talent and know how, to pull off a realistic fake in that amount of time.
I'd sooner beleive they found a real one.
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Senior Member
It's real. I nearly fell off my chair reading this 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16150384
You can also see the white stripe on the wing, it's possible that it broke or cracked when it crashed so they mended it enough for the hacking story to be plausible.
Supposedly Iran is negotiating with Russia and China to give them the drone, asking S300 missiles in return.