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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: Arthur Wildfire! March

It would be nice if we could have simple EMP weapons (bullets, shells, non-nuclear missiles) to counter drones.


81 posted on 05/14/2014 11:06:50 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: RetiredArmy

We can’t save everyone, just some people who come around to figuring that they don’t have to embrace or follow the not so decent ways and repent. I agree, I grew up perhaps way later than you. Still, it gives some meaning to exactly what Jesus meant in parables when he frequently showed halves being left out and/or destroyed. Everything and everywhere, including America, is going to be decimated, and will be split between God and Mammon.


82 posted on 05/14/2014 11:10:32 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: mazda77

LOL..... what goes on behind closed doors or barns....


83 posted on 05/16/2014 8:20:08 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: gaijin
Even NON-PILOTS will catch a few design impossibilities, after 5 or so minutes of really looking.

It's been upgraded as well.

This DRONE has a COCKPIT!

Achmed will just fit into it!

84 posted on 05/18/2014 5:55:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Alex Murphy

I kinda am drawn to the really good rubber gasket seal around the canopy...


85 posted on 05/18/2014 5:59:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Alex Murphy

Of course, the pipe seen stiffening the outer skin just above the seat area, seems under designed. The fiberglass would probably flap and crack.


86 posted on 05/18/2014 6:01:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Behind them red things.

You don’t want camel spiders nesting in there while on the ground.


87 posted on 05/18/2014 6:09:39 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RetiredArmy
America has become a cess pool of sin and debauchery.

Ya think?




Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

88 posted on 05/18/2014 6:16:00 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Yup. I think to answer your question of, Ya think?


89 posted on 05/19/2014 5:18:06 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: RetiredArmy
I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 
 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)
 
 
But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,
and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)
 
 
 
 
 
 
What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing
of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.
Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.
 
 
I hear that by now, somewhere around 55 MILLION of them have perished.
Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and
retirement?
 
 
 
 
 
Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses
before they are ALL dead!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

90 posted on 05/19/2014 6:45:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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