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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/iran-releases-images-downed-u-spy-drone-171144210.html
No self destruct on drone????
Obama you fail  12/8/2011 3:20:54 PM
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At least no Navy SEALS were killed in the making of this fail.
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lol?!
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Someone forgot to press the red button. 12/8/2011 3:21:38 PM |
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SCRAP ASSIST 12/8/2011 3:40:11 PM |
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Ahmadinejad got a SAM Turret 12/8/2011 3:40:54 PM |
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Counter UAV active. They're blind. 12/8/2011 3:42:34 PM |
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Fail 12/8/2011 3:42:45 PM |
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I'm pretty sure they zeroized the motherfucker imnediately. Other than that, theres only so much that can be learned from reverse engineering part of a system. 12/8/2011 3:48:30 PM |
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hope theres no data remanence 12/8/2011 3:52:17 PM |
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| Quote : | | "Defense experts have suggested that those countries have the advanced military know-how to be able to use the access to the previously secret U.S. RQ-170 technology to benefit their own programs." |
Then I assume "defense experts" are also aware that just because the aircraft landed in Iran doesn't mean the insides aren't goo. It's not all that uncommon to have a system that, if it doesn't receive packets of data from a transmitter every so often, eventually just fries it's own insides. A lot of our missiles do that.12/8/2011 3:53:19 PM |
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trojan horse the next one 12/8/2011 3:56:01 PM |
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how'd they knock it down without damaging it? 12/8/2011 4:13:40 PM |
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a TWII EMP Cannon 12/8/2011 4:15:31 PM |
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THE HAND OF ALLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/326859main_image_1323_full.jpg
[Edited on December 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM. Reason : nobody wants to see images that big] 12/8/2011 4:26:45 PM |
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| Quote : | | "how'd they knock it down without damaging it?" |
For many reasons, I don't buy that they "knocked it down" for a second. Knocking down something this size with that small of a radar cross section would be a 1-in-a-million shot.
More realistically, the thing probably lost it's C2 link, fell to the earth, got smashed up, and the Iranians slapped some fiberglass on it, and called it a day.
A few things to note in the video...
Notice how the wings are being supported by two blocks instead of putting it on a stand for better visibility. I suspect the air frame is completely tore up, so they laid it on a flat surface to make it appear intact.
In the Reuters video, the Iranian official just uses his thumb to lift up the spoilers. These things are usually either hydraulic or use servos. Either way, I doubt if it was intact/function he could lift it up with one finger.
Around the 8 second mark of the video, there is what appears to be a metal clamp or tap on the starboard leading edge of the wing. These is a second one further down the wing. This is something they have added to the craft, again, possibly to keep the wreckage all in one piece if it was destroyed from the fall.
The wings have big seams on either side of the fuselage that for a stealth aircraft wouldn't exist (minimize seams). This *could* be where the composite body parts were originally manufacturer as separate pieces and broke apart on impact with the ground.
It's not that hard to lay composites down if you're just going to be doing a PR interview and not have to actually fly the thing. I have no doubt that pieces of the body fell to the ground, intact, and the Iranians were able to recover them, but if you really want to embarrass the Americans by showing that you stole their toy, you'd open up a couple maintenance hatches to show the internals or at least the engine. Without that, it's just a shell of an aircraft that looks suspiciously like something I remember seeing when I was still a student in some AIAA magazine.12/8/2011 6:01:48 PM |
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^
this is probably like when china used top gun footage to demonstrate the capabilities of their dogfighting skills
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i hope its got a hidden bomb in it for when some Iranian master scientist goes to tinker with the innards 12/8/2011 8:09:11 PM |
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Or the scientist helps repair the drone to be a better drone than it was before it was captured so that the drone can Ironman it's way back home 12/8/2011 8:23:29 PM |
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^ lol 12/14/2011 6:22:12 AM |
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| Quote : | | "Ahmadinejad got a SAM Turret" |
That is only a 4 kill streak. Amateur.12/14/2011 7:40:40 AM |
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http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-iran-hijacked-us-drone-says-iranian-engineer-164100415.html
If this is true......  12/16/2011 5:18:07 PM |
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I doubt. The Iranian government spews as much misinformation as Iraq's government used to under Saddam. 12/16/2011 5:51:43 PM |
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uhoh.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/world/meast/iran-u-s-drone-copy/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 5/12/2014 12:43:04 PM |
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looking like a drone doesn't make it a drone 5/12/2014 5:25:47 PM |
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yeah, just like that "stealth jet" they built 5/12/2014 5:26:56 PM |
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When have they ever been telling the truth about these stunts? 5/12/2014 5:34:05 PM |
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Literally - thanks, Obama! 5/12/2014 8:24:44 PM |
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It sure took them long enough
That thing is [old] and useless now
It would make one hell of an rc plane though 5/13/2014 9:17:58 AM |
wdprice3
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They're getting pretty good at their model aircraft building. I wonder what kit that one is? 5/13/2014 1:31:30 PM |
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Lets completely discredit this because we all know Iranians are too dumb to possess widely available scientific and technological knowledge  5/13/2014 6:47:14 PM |
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no, we discredit it because they constantly built fake shit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2277412/Fake-stealth-plane-Irans-Photoshopped-fighter-jet-spotted-air.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/04/these-satellite-images-show-irans-construction-of-a-fake-u-s-aircraft-carrier/ 5/13/2014 7:38:37 PM |
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shit
[Edited on May 13, 2014 at 7:48 PM. Reason : 1] 5/13/2014 7:43:18 PM |
