Posted on 12/06/2011 8:56:48 AM PST by Qbert
Are we?
Who is the CiC, again?
He said it's difficult to believe that Iran could have brought down the aircraft with electronic jamming or by taking the controls through a cyber attack as the country claims it did. "You never say never, but I would be gob-smacked and amazed if they even knew how," Gambold said.
"If the Iranians captured it intact, they would already be posing around it and posting photos to embarrass us...It also has a self destruct feature. "
Update: It's intact.
"A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran.
"Yep, that's it," the official told Fox News. "And it's intact."
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