Posted on 05/11/2014 7:10:21 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
Iran says it has “succeeded” in copying an American drone it captured in 2011 and will soon take the replicated aircraft on a test flight.
State television in Iran broadcasted images Sunday apparently showing a replicated US RQ-170 Sentinel drone alongside the original one, according to the AFP.
"Our engineers succeeded in breaking the drone's secrets and copying them,” an officer in the footage reportedly said. “It will soon take a test flight."
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was inspecting the aircraft during an exhibition organized by the country’s Revolutionary Guards air wing, said the unmanned drone is “very important for reconnaissance missions," the AFP reports.
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This could be fun!
Let’s blow it out of the air just for fun.
The only problem with that sort of thing is the fact that when we develop a technology like that, we generally develop the means to defeat or detect it at the same time. At the very least we have a major head start.
I suspect that they may discover a few teeny weeny quality control issues. That is if this aircraft is anything but a fiberglass mock up.
These are the same people who tried to pass off a fiberglass fishing boat as a stealth fighter.
2011? Man, are they slow. The Chinese would've had a copy up in test flight in a year. Then again, maybe they used Chinese advisors to make the copy. Getting it in the air is one thing, control is another, and whether it functions as the original is problematic.
/johnny
Awesome!
Iv always wondered the engineering limits of paper mache and duct tape
Congrats on decoding our throw away GPS guided drones. We are on to much better things that aren’t as easily fooled as GPS. If they can hack them and plan on deploying it, good luck stopping us doing so in return.
Actually made in China:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__5455__Predator_UAV_74in_Spy_Plane_ARF.html
An engineer can say that he has succeeded in building an aircraft only AFTER a series of test flights - not before the first one.
yeah... till then all it might have is an expensive sculpture
Meanwhile 100 able bodied pilots have signed up for the task!
Who wants to fly in the first drone??
Ignore the “MH370” markings
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