U.S. Military Sources: Iran Has Missing U.S. Drone

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[DonnerT]

***Perhaps it was supposed to be ‘captured’ intact. Bogus technology can throw off the enemy.***

Trojan eagle?

[JSteff]

here we have a machine that can drop precision bomb

Uh, no. It is a RECON drone, not set up for bomb dropping. That is the predator.

[Revolting cat!]

Perhaps it was supposed to be 'captured' intact. Bogus technology can throw off the enemy.

I thought of the same thing. The Wright Brothers technology.

[Rembrandt]

Earth to DonnerT:

It is not infeasible to have two transmitters on board a drone, a more complex one to handle targeting, etc., a different one to blow a small piece of explosive.

[Revolting cat!]

... running off Microsoft Windows 2.0.

[JSteff]

Maybe just another “gift’ to out enemies from the Traitor in Chief?

He would not be the first president to do that. Clinton gave them MIRV technology, a stealth plane, and who knows how much else.

[runninglips]

This is a political payoff to somebody. A nice way to betray our country. Thank you Barack Hussein Obama. I will personally water the flowers on your memorial, for this wonderful act of “diplomacy”.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Perhaps it would’ve been more prudent to program it to self-destruct in the event of lost communications.

I'm thinking the same thing. Surely there must be some kind of self-destruct mechanism.

[Smokin' Joe]

...since it is programmed to fly level and find a place to land, rather than crashing.

Why not just program it to RTB? Dumb. Maybe there is a flashing blue light on top...

[mylife]

Why use a transmitter? It could just be an impact sensor , an accelerometer.

[DonnerT]

*** A ‘tamper’ triggered destruct would not require any communication. That would be most effective.***

If I were an Iranian I would only approach it after it quit smoking from the tank rounds I put into it.

[JSteff]

Remember those days?

There is none of that spine anywhere near DC now. It is close to the Clinton days where our technology is for sale to our enemies.

[Revolting cat!]

Surely there must be some kind of self-destruct mechanism.

Yeah, like a flask of Absinthe for the pilot!

[HereInTheHeartland]

http://www.industrialdefender.com/general_downloads/incidents/1982.06_trans_siberian_gas_pipeline_explosion.pdf

[guitarplayer1953]

Why are these not boobitrapped to blow up if jacked with?

[mylife]

I made the mistake of doing two shots of that once.
I lost four days and nights.

[JSteff]

Toshiba though was caught, prosecuted, and got fined, and was bared from selling in the U.S. (for a period of time) for its theft of our technology. I believe that was about our submarine propeller silence secrets.

[Revolting cat!]

Yeah, it oughta have a self-eating mechanism, that could be called something like DonnerPass!

[mouske]

“That thing could still be sending information home.”

...maybe sending targeting information to a drone on its way to destroy the first drone.

[mylife]

It was.
The French facilitated it.