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A 'nightmare becoming reality'? Iran unveils American drone replica.
Yahoo News ^ | 12 May 2014 | Scott Peterson

Posted on 05/12/2014 6:54:12 PM PDT by mandaladon

Iran has unveiled its own copy of an American stealth drone it captured in late 2011, claiming to have cracked the “secrets” of the bat-wing craft and added weapons capabilities.

Today, Fars News Agency reported that while Iran’s duplicate of the US RQ-170 Sentinel drone was smaller, it also had a “bombing capability to attack the US warships in any possible battle.” The story in Persian was headlined: “America’s nightmare has become reality.” State television showed footage on Sunday it said was of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf filmed by an Iranian drone

The drone replica was unveiled at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) exhibition on Sunday, where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was briefed on how the drone, its systems, and structure had been reverse-engineered. He called it a “sweet day.”

The stealth replica would “soon take a test flight,” an IRGC officer said on Sunday. Aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajijadeh said today that they are working on two more models of the replica drone.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; rq170
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To: mandaladon

This might be more of a problem:

Breaking: Moscow to ban US from using Russian rocket engines for military launches

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3155391/posts

In either case, not a good day.


61 posted on 05/13/2014 9:03:43 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: leakinInTheBlueSea

would not need much explosive to disintegrate the
aircraft- maybe 2 lbs of C4?- or similar-
with a auto destruct engaged after liftoff and if
aircraft fell to 1000ft above the ground...


62 posted on 05/13/2014 9:05:37 AM PDT by mj1234
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63 posted on 05/13/2014 9:07:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mandaladon
First this; State television showed footage on Sunday it said was of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf filmed by an Iranian drone

Then this:The stealth replica would “soon take a test flight,” an IRGC officer said on Sunday

Okay, which is it? Seems if it hasn't had a test flight, it couldn't have already filmed anything. Islamaidiots

64 posted on 05/13/2014 9:11:31 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: mandaladon

Not to fear. Drone signals can be jammed. But yeah, Obama lives up to his ‘Zero’ moniker.


65 posted on 05/13/2014 9:12:21 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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To: gaijin

That style of recoil reducer really cracks the ears of the shooter-—turns the supersonic wave 90 degrees. Even if the have a bunch of deaf guys to shoot it, without ear protection it will make the shooter falling-down dizy after the first shot.


66 posted on 05/13/2014 10:47:19 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: mandaladon

I don’t know when it will happen, but I know it will. Someday Israel and the US will regret not having dealt with Iran when they should have.


67 posted on 05/13/2014 10:48:03 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (liberalism is a cancer that spreads everywhere, even to the republican party)
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To: mandaladon

Wasn’t Scott Peterson sentenced to death for murdering his wife a few years ago?


68 posted on 05/13/2014 12:29:27 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: mandaladon
Probably about as good as Irans stealth fighter


69 posted on 05/13/2014 1:49:03 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: 1Old Pro

“We should have bombed it during the press conference with one of our drones...”

I dunno; all that irony concentrated in such a small area...? Next thing ya know the whole place gets sucked into an irrationality vortex. That would be a series cataclysm affecting all hugh manatee; a cat ass trophy of epicurean portions.

Do you know the critical mass of irony, offhand? It’s been so long I’d have to look it up, myself.


70 posted on 05/13/2014 3:28:49 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The Superior Culture will prevail.)
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To: mandaladon

Maybe they’ll take out Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid...?


71 posted on 05/13/2014 4:52:31 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: dowcaet

They have kept their F14 flyable all these years. I won’t sleep on these guys. They did some incredible stuff against Saddam like the lowest aerial refueling in history.


72 posted on 05/13/2014 5:18:35 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: ncfool

God is not going to do anything special for America. America has become a cess pool of sin and debauchery. We celebrate homo’s on ESPN kissing after one is drafted to the NFL. The president sends them congrad’s notices. America has a massive sin problem. Until America repents its sins, America is going to continue down the tube into hell. America as founded is gone. America has become a Me Me Me first state. Communists, socialists, Islamic murdering thugs, race wars, homo lovers, our military now considering gender changers to be enlisted. This is not the nation I was born into. It is not a nation that I am proud of. Like I said, until America gets on its knees and confess its sins, it swirls deeper and deeper into the debauchery.


73 posted on 05/13/2014 6:17:45 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I’m guessing, one on each side of the cockpit, behind the red caps. They seem a mite small, though.


74 posted on 05/13/2014 10:42:17 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: mandaladon
Hey Iran ? fear what maybe " operational " in the US arsenal, but fear all the more what has not been revealed to the public and world , ..... yet.

A man who I knew who worked with technology who is now deceased once told me, that the technology that we see today ? was developed 10 15 20 years before the world or public see's the light of it.
75 posted on 05/13/2014 11:28:41 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hobbyist with some fiberglass could have come up with something like that.... nice try Iran...
Just wait Iran until the " real " stealth drones " start coming your way that you don't know about, yet.
76 posted on 05/13/2014 11:31:03 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: mandaladon

A lot of paper mache.


77 posted on 05/13/2014 11:33:35 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: headstamp 2

My obtainium is unobtainiumable.


78 posted on 05/13/2014 11:35:00 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: mazda77
You don't want to know.......

Goat brothels...
79 posted on 05/13/2014 11:35:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

I spent 18 months of my life stationed in Tehran. The old joke was there weren’t homos there, it was just custom.


80 posted on 05/14/2014 3:17:44 AM PDT by mazda77
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