Posted on 12/18/2011 5:11:02 PM PST by Hunton Peck
I don't remember the part in the numerous security briefings saying it's okay to speak about classified matters as long as you don't identify yourself.
I do remember threats of many many years imprisonment and lots of $$ in fines for violations.
U.S. officials previously have said the drones have no self-destruct mechanism.
Thou art truly sh1tting me. How do you make a machine designed to fly over enemy territory, filled with cutting edge technology and you do not have a “bzzzztttt” switch in it?
.....and then there was the part about cutting your nuts off.
The reporter probably wrote ‘who could speak’ instead of ‘who would speak’.
Never underestimate your enemy.
Nearly every engineering and science grad school in the nation has several to many Iranian grad students rolling through their departments for the past 30 years.
If they can process nuclear fuels and are feared to possess nuclear weapons, then they also will have the ability in at least small numbers to dedicate themselves to such projects when they have been given over a decade of opportunity.
We haven’t done anything to redirect their volition.
If anything, our departure from Iraq might embolden their zeal.
This sounds like an excuse for having done nothing.
Iran downed an American plane.
So do something about that. Don’t explain why it’s not a bad thing.
It’s a bad thing.
One word: Bondo.
In the Navy they threaten to use you for shark bait. Three guesses where they but the hook.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
No. Weight, fuel and payload restrictions did.
Mark
because real life is not a hollywood production...
Very likely that the FSB is using Iran as we used Afganistan and Turkey during the Cold War. Russian Spetnaz troops and Sigint agents at small Elint sites (shipping vans) likely line various hot US signal reception areas in Iran monitoring what we are doing in the Afganistan war. The remote area where the drone crashed is one possible area where they may be active.
The Russians would like nothing better than to sell Iran more mil stuff like S300 systems. Even if they have to take an initial loss, other countries will demand them and so arms sales will begin again.
The Russians and Chinese probabally have either stolen most of the tech or have things comparable or better.
So the Russians force the drone down in such a way that US cannot tell if it was forced down or malfunctioned. The Iranians immediately demand Russia give them the mil tech in exchage for drone access. (Which they have now done with Yakout missile systems).
The Russian arms companies will be back in business again with the latest mil tech for export to other countries demanding S300s and Yakouts.
Devious I know, but these Russians do not think as most, deviousness is a way of life.
“So you imagine the FSB is just twiddling its collective thumbs, while Russian engineers and nuclear scientists pour over various nuclear projects in Iran?”
I don’t believe they are twiddling their thumbs. Nor the Chinese, nor the Norks or anyone who is working against the US. However, in saying that, I still assume the Russians are working against the Chinese who is working against whomever.
So who is the Iranians main benefactor?
I’m saving these remarks to show my Trophy Bride of 50+ years the next time she gets poed that I will not tell her anything that was classified and I was in the ‘Need to know Loop’!
“The official, who could speak about classified matters only on condition of anonymity”
‘I don’t remember the part in the numerous security briefings saying it’s okay to speak about classified matters as long as you don’t identify yourself.
I do remember threats of many many years imprisonment and lots of $$ in fines for violations.’
‘.....and then there was the part about cutting your nuts off.’
‘In the Navy they threaten to use you for shark bait. Three guesses where they but the hook.’
Thank you for your interest in National Defense.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
So who is the Iranians main benefactor?
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Russia is the hands down benefactor: large scale profits from nuclear reactors, mil gear, etc. The Chinese get the oil.
The Russians and the Chinese renewed their mutual defense pact some years back.
The Chinese have their Super 863 Project: the search for the next super weapon - data acquired via espionage in all countries; Project 921 for human space flight and a permanent space station.
Do these drones have such a mechanism?
If so, one has to wonder WHY it was not used.
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