Posted on 05/12/2014 6:54:12 PM PDT by mandaladon
It also means it is highly likely that Russia and China have also reverse engineered this drone and deploy it.
In fact, Russia’s MiG bureau is now dedicated solely to unmanned platforms.
China and Russia could reverse engineer this, but that takes years.
Yours was close to my reaction; so what kind of rodeo goes on in this place on a normal day?
As I recall they did. But the Iranians intercepted/jammed the signal and took control the bird.
Do you think that Russia may have had something to do with helping them on this? Drone tech isn’t like giving away how to build a nuclear weapon. It’s also something great if America isn’t the only one with them.
What is the flight range of this thing?
Is it like the made up/fake fighter jet they released last year?
If it stays in the hanger, it'll never appear on anyone's radar :)
because Obama gave this to them
intentionally
I was reminded of this fake less than a year ago I think:
Amazing what you can do with a little duct tape, cardboard and paint.
We should have bombed it during the press conference with one of our drones, that would have been funny.
Good point. The Iranians are getting outside technological help for their nukes and probably for the rebuild of this drone. They can’t be doing all of this on their own.
I wonder what the loiter time is on just one rubber band?
This from a country that fought an 8 year war with Iraq to a stalemate, losing at least 250,000 solders. It took how many days for the U.S. to defeat Iraq?
Iran is a legend in their own mind.
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Don’t be too skeptical. I remember their breakthrough in mine detection technology.
All this talk about drones is just so much hot air. Anybody who has ever flown RC aircraft can build a drone. Add size and weight carrying ability, some cameras or other cargo plus some encryption circuitry for control and you have a drone. So what if they cloned it or whatever? Most autobody shops can do that......................
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