Posted on 12/11/2011 12:00:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The stealth C.I.A. drone that crashed deep inside Iranian territory last week was part of a stepped-up surveillance program that has frequently sent the United States most hard-to-detect drone into the country to map suspected nuclear sites, according to foreign officials and American experts who have been briefed on the effort.
Until this week, the high-altitude flights from bases in Afghanistan were among the most secret of many intelligence-collection efforts against Iran, and American officials refuse to discuss it. But the crash of the vehicle, which Iranian officials said occurred more than 140 miles from the border with Afghanistan, blew the programs cover.
The overflights by the bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel, built by Lockheed Martin and first glimpsed on an airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009, are part of an increasingly aggressive intelligence collection program aimed at Iran, current and former officials say. The urgency of the effort has been underscored by a recent public debate in Israel about whether time is running out for a military strike to slow Irans progress toward a nuclear weapon.....
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Must have just glided sedately down, and found some flat terrain.
Even out of fuel, its brain, as they say, “wants to live,” so it will maintain level flight control until it meets the ground.
Better its final command should be, “Blow myself into a million bits” while on missions over hostile terrain.
Somebody put the engineering drawings in the U.A.V.? Not likely. But with all the politically-correct crap goin' on out ther' HB1s are probably swarming all over our black programs nowadays -- as Obama apologizes for America racist past, no doubt.
.. or something like this from the Clinton past, a letter published by the Nytimese themselves describes it: "Another example of disregard for the security of our nuclear-weapons information was the elimination of color-coded access-control badges at Energy Department nuclear laboratories, beginning in 1994. Badge color, visible across a large room, displayed one's security status -- badges enabled personnel to readily discern whether there was anyone within hearing range who should be excluded from hearing classified information." Spilling Our Nuclear Secrets.
Or this more reliable source for news here
Back then the Asian Victims of America (AVOA) industry flooded our print and electronic news with howls about yet another victim of this awful country. That victim was Wen Ho Lee who was quickly exonerated -- though Clinton Attorney General Reno expressed concerns and Lee agreed to help find those tapes he made in exchange for being let go. He never did more than send FBI agents on one wild-goose chase after another. I believe. If you read the linked FR article you'll discover that Lee fooled the FBI as a kind of hobby, I suppose. D'oh!
They do. Something or someone failed.
Did they put it in a burka?
Did they put it in a burkha?
It is a bad copy, very bad copy. Nobody has yet pointed out the BBQ grill on the air inlet that does not show on the Kandahar picture in addition to the very crappy leading edge of the wing and front body. The wing junction is not symmetrical. The opening for the air inlet is not correct either. I could make a far better copy out of Styrofoam from the one picture.
Something very screwy about the whole story
I say bullcrap on that assertion by the missile "expert" as the availability to reverse anything is easily obtained. Here is a company I use to do just that. To a tolerance of less than three thousandths of an inch.
FDR, who was George Washington compared to this guy, was surrounded by communist sympathizers, including his second vice president and wife.
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