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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All they need is a 3D printer to replicate that drone and I’m pretty sure Iran has one.
They snatched it out of the air unscathed no doubt with Russian / Chinese guidance. They copied it with Russian / Chinese guidance.
Of all of soetoro’s ****ups I forgot about this one.
Afterall he gifted it to them.
-——They should name their first drone after obama——
They will name it for the Shia patriarch....... Hussein
The airframe is the easy part. The software and firmware and sensors and control is the hard part.
I beg to differ..... never underestimate anyone who have had operational Magic Carpet rides for at least 800 years......
First the dung beetle and now this? Where will it end?
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