Posted on 12/04/2012 10:34:37 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
Most of the actions in the US-Iran covert war remain mysterious and unclaimed – until one side sees an advantage in shining light on an incident. That’s what Iran has done with the drone capture.
This image taken from the Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel Al-Alam, showed what the Iranian government says is an intact U.S. ScanEagle drone aircraft.
Iranian claims – and US denials – that Iran captured an American reconnaissance drone flying over Iranian territory in recent days offers little in the way of clarity, other than this: The covert war between the two adversaries continues.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday released video through the semiofficial Fars news agency purporting to show an unarmed drone that Revolutionary Guard officials said they “hunted down” recently after detecting it over Iranian territory.
The four-foot-long unmanned vehicle, called a ScanEagle, was shown on Iranian television with a map of the Persian Gulf in the background and the legend, “We shall trample on the U.S.”
Those words placed the ScanEagle incident among the other tactics of a smoldering war with Iran and its proxies, among them Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the United States and its partners, including Israel. Such tactics have ranged from unclaimed bombings and the use of cyberworms to assassinations.
The US Navy, which operates ScanEagle drones in the region, responded from the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain that all its drones operating in the Middle East were accounted for. It also noted in a statement, “Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space.”
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I think it would be simple enough to build a “self-destruct” device into any drones that have sensitive technology. Even if they are scrambling our signals, you could set it up so that the self-destruct kicks in if the drone doesn’t get a signal from base for a long enough period.
And Ameananutjob would lie outright, of course.
Who says the Navy is lying? Just ‘cause it has Navy markings doesn’t mean it really belongs to them. There is a Van’s RV-4 flying out of a local airport that has markings that would be perfect for a WW II Navy aircraft, but somehow I don’t think they owned one.
Apart from the fact that they are totally different in size and configuration.
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