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Iran Unleashes Reverse-Engineered US Drone In First Test Flight
Almost three years ago, Iran reportedly downed a US drone. The RQ-170 Sentinel recon drone that was reportedly captured has apparently been reverse-engineered, and now, as Reuters reports, Iran state news agency IRNA reports the drone-clone has taken its first flight. Iran's Supreme Leader noted, "Today is a very sweet and unforgettable day for me." Of course, this 'news' should be taken with a modest pinch of salt but, as with everything in foreign policy these days, Brigadier General Ali Hajizadeh states that "a film of the flight will be released soon."
The clip of the downed drone from 2011...
and in 2013, Iran managed to hack some of the footage from the captured drone...
An Iranian copy of a U.S. reconnaissance drone captured in 2011 has taken its first flight, state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
In December 2011, Iran said it had captured a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran that had been reported lost by U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
"We promised that a model of RQ-170 would fly in the second half of the year, and this has happened," Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told IRNA. "A film of the flight will be released soon."
In a video posted by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voiced satisfaction at the news after seeing a replica of the drone, saying: "Today is a very sweet and unforgettable day for me."
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So ISIS has fighter jets and Iran has drones... and the US is doubling its troops in the region... yep, seems like a good reason to buy more stocks.
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Oh I thought it was a Pantom Quadcopter Iran from Hasbro.
I can't tell what the story is anymore and what is the ads. Maybe they can do a page of ads and a popup story?
pods
But where is its beard??
Is this drone like the mighty Qaher 313?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B80YXYslsW4
Poor fucking Iranians. They can't even build something the equivalent of the Nazi-era ME-262.
Basically, Iran is like the USSR back in 1921, only run by men who don't even know how to shave.
Listen American Douche.
Fuck you. ok? Good.
Well that escalated quickly.
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/1952861/81511145.jpg
And here I was thinking Bangalore was in India.
Yes - that was exactly Adolf´s view of those backward Russians. So he went to war with them.
The Iranian copy is far more functional and better made then the US original.
And the downvoting on honest opinion can begin.
If you like our drone, you can keep our drone. And clone it.
Unless you actually worked on either project, yer talking thru yer hat!
Looks like you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!
Yer thinking of that Jet from El-Al, a most orthodox (and Kosher!) plane!
The margins are shrinking.
Turn off Javascript before entering Zerohedge. It is the only way to preserve your sanity. Only turn it back on to watch specific videos.
I use Noscript, as it allows you to selectively pick and choose what sites to allow, along with temporary settings.
Noscript is absolutely the right way to go.
I second the recommendation.
No script, disconnect me, adblock, and self destructing cookies, and light beam to help me keep track of what connections i make.
should keep them advertising/data collecting motherfuckers in check.
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Use Firefox with some of their free add-ons - all that shit goes away
I do at home, but don't have admin priv here at work.
Nevermind the phone. It is like playing Missile Command on the Blackberry.
I do try and click on a couple of ads a day here to support Tyler, but hell, this place is a mindfield now.
"Hover over to expand."
pods
Yes, I will never but any damn product from Prudential.
I don't care much for google, but one thing they did right was to keep a clean interface. It keeps the sheep returning to to tainted well.
You said it. You should try and read a story on a Kindle Fire. It's freaking miserable.
Hezbollah has posted several videos of them using drone fired missiles. A great sign..
As for the bullshit zerohedge seems to continue to have to spew about ISIS having an air force - the planes in question were apparently brought in from Iraq ( by iraqi pilots - makes perfect sense ) and at least 2 of the 3 have been destroyed.
As I said before, anyone with a brain who thinks ISIS can develop and airforce on the fly in a war zone where they have no air power and little air defense wither needs to be committed, or hired at SITE intelligence.
Now they just need to add some drop-off fuel tanks and...watch out, Tel Aviv! Add some USA markings and..."By deception shalt thou make war!"
But... we've got the patents on that. Are they allowed to do that?
Because Obama.
ofc not, you should blackmail them and charge for money, like you do with banks.
but we know USA good guys and no way they will do it. Oh wait...
EVERYONE is breaking Law(s) these daze, because "Moral Hazard!"
Coming soon to a neighborhood near YOU.
Anyone have the GPS coordinates for the Marriner Eccles Building?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_Building
Clear the browser's address bar (not the Google Maps search bar), then copy and paste the snippet of javascript code below into the address bar, and hit "enter."
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
Thanks! That looks mighty useful. Here, in case Tcl/Tk fonts are too small for you to read:
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#set tabwidth 0
foreach font [font names] {
font configure $font -size 16
# '16' is the new font size, because the default of '9'
# is so puny on a 24" monitor!
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#
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Just zoom into it in Google Maps, put your cursor over it, right click and choose "What's Here".
The map address bar will indicate long and lat.
Why can't we have a supreme leader? Oh that's right Obama is President of Washington D.C.
We have a Theocracy in the USA, a bunch of religious leaders here in the USA, its Called AIPAC's governing body. Not that much different from the body of Ayetollahs governing Iran.
I guess the downvotes are people in denial who dont like accepting the truth. Wonder how much longer before Christmas is illegal and only the Festival of Lights with a big Menorah on the National Square is the only thing allowed.
The downvotes are more likely from ADL "volunteers" that continuously monitor all popular sites like this for conformity with the Zioligarchy's mind control goals.
The good news is you must have struck a sensitive chord. Each downvote from this terror group is worth multiple upvotes. Keep up the good work.
They are sending an Ayatollah to the moon next.
In space, no one can hear your muezzin
Inevitable
Impossible. Only American scientists and engineers have the knowledge and skill to construct such aircraft. God wills it.
German engineers.
Anti shipping drones were used in WWII in 1944/5 by the Luftwaffe.
Primitive TV cameras and all.
Only took the US another 50 years to catch on.
Why would someone vote you down for speaking the truth? Guess besides geography, a lot of people dont know their history.
The Wehrmacht also had drone mini-tanks called the Goliath for destroying big tanks.
But, the US Army Air Corps used drone B-17's (and perhaps other aircraft) loaded with explosives which were remotely flown into targets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
Joseph Kennedy Jr was killed during such a mission.
There was a lot of wierd experimentation going on, back to WWI. Evolution of the Cruise Missile - The Air University
It was a shame that Ted was not his co-pilot. Ted couldn't even drive an Oldsmobile over a bridge.
Lucky us that this remote flying of large airplanes experimenting stopped there and then. Think about the possible consequences if that technique got used...in the wrong way.
Especially on a day in September, 2001.
Yupp. Explains a lot doesn´t it? Except for the cruise missiles at Shanksville and Pentagon. No way that little timid hole without any debris at Shanskville was an airliner. Compare to photos from the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine.And Pentagon is even more obvious. Did you notice that snippet of information that walls had been "renovated" both at WTC and Pentagon at the exact spot of impact. Probably not only plaster and paint but also trasnmitters to better guide those incoming things.
I have my own following of downvoters.Neo nazis and zionists. Getting those agree on anything
is kudos enough.
Must be all of the Nicki Manaj hate.
"You didn't build that" -because Obama.
Here's the authentic, just-released video of the drone in flight. Head for the bunker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeboWhC2oeU
Iran is involved.....the drone will be craptastic.
I think some components of the drone originally designed, were already crap. If they werent, then the Iranians shouldnt have been able to commandeer the drone.
There were stories of drones' video feed captured by insurgents via US$26 software in Iraq. This one is supposedly a spy drone meaning advanced encryption protocols etc., I suppose drone spying program of CIA was followed long enough without CIA knowledge to allow for such seamless hijacking of the drone. Supposedly, drone's uplink was jammed and false GPS coordinates were fed to the machine so when it followed standard procedure of returning to homebase it actually landed on airstrip in Iran instead of Bagram or whatever. Believable enough, however I do not expect Iranians to develop such expertise without outside help.
Oh goody, they have you tube videos.
If Iran starts "secretly" drone attacking US spies, drones or advisors in Afghanistan and Pakistan would we be offended? We've been doing it to them for years.
If Iran starts "secretly" drone attacking US spies, drones or advisors in USA would we be offended?
I think it's ok, you have many illegals with guns who can go to Iran, so Iran must defend themself
Courtesy of their Shia boo Obama and his shia handler Valerie Jarett
Science is not magic, the laws of phyiscs are not secrets.
Good for them
Copy Cat - what's next? Nukes?
Listen.
Who the fuck are the Americans to dictate who can have nukes and who cannot.
Let Iran develop a robust nuclear arsenal. NOW!
What I don't understand is that it takes them so long to build one.
All you need is a unlimited budget and about 60 engineerd of which you shoot one every week the deadline isn't met to build it.
The Chinese have a very good drone also.
Thats what the problem was, The Israelis were shooting their engineers before the deadlines hahahha
If Amazon can make drones, Iran certainly can. Be prepared for the release of Iranian 'terrorist' drones in the US, under control by various organizations. But we won't have anything to worry about because 'US drones' certainly do not attack innocent civilians, nor do they target specific individual leaders. So as long as YOU are not in one of those two categories, you should be safe!
I expect to see a 'terrorist drone' attack in the US sometime in the future. It does create the interesting situation where a suicide drone could be used - and make us wonder if 47 'virgin drones' are waiting for it.
Avoid wedding parties too!
That's great!
Bibi is going to be all over this... with charts!
It's only a matter of days before the ayatollahs equip one of these invisible drones with a matchbox nuke and destroy Israel!
Credit them for getting this done. Why did they need to copy to build their own? If Russia really is a supporter then Russia should have given them the technology long ago, Iran should have had a fleet of drones by now.
These large drones are one catagory but if a target is known - smaller, cheaper drones that can be flown directly there and back without circlling for a target for hours would be useful. Even small drones that are flown into the target. US bases, outposts and convoys would seem to be targets Small locally flown drones, just big enough to carry a suitable payload could be effective against vehicle patrols.
Not sure why it has taken so long to get into the drone business as they seem to be a useful weapon against the bulky US military. And again, why has Russia not helped Iran or sold Russian drones to Iran and Syria. (Same reason Putin backed out of his agreement to sell Russia's latest anti air craft missile systems to Iran and Syria.)
Iran has lots of other drones that they have been developing (and using / distributing to their allies), it's just that in this case they not only managed to take an American drone out of their skies undamaged, but also then managed to replicate it completely (with improvements I'm sure).
The key thing about this drone is that it is a STEALTH design, although in truth those 'stealth' technologies tend to be way over-hyped, especially now that radar technology has become so advanced (ex: Iran had no trouble picking the original out of their skies...)
In any case, it's good for them, and bad for satanic Amerikkka/Israel/Europe!
The Iranians are very backward, technologically. And in practically every other respect.
Islam is a bit of a hindrance when you are studying something that takes a great deal of focus to master. Imagine trying to study fluid dynamics and having to break concentration every couple of hours so you can kneel on a mat facing East, thinking about God. Mathematics is the foundation of modern science and all the mathemeticians I know spent a long time cloistered with their books for days on end getting their heads around the concepts. Unless you're a genius, I suspect it's impossible to be a mathematician with a decent grasp of modern maths and a devout Muslim.
Muslim sciences flourished and led the world until, what, the 13th c? Since then all their progress appears to have coat-tailed the West's.
You can't be an engineer or scientists and a Muslim at the same time. All engineers and scientist focus on progress while Muslims focus on regression.
I'll bet they improved on it by adding a self destruct charge.
I think they said it came with one but some moron forgot to arm it or something like that.
How so? The drone was fooled into landing at the wrong coordinates, it had no reason to self-destruct, especially when the control signals from USAF/CIA were jammed anyway.
"Today is a very sweet..."
Is "sweet" still being used as a descriptive term? I keep waiting for the return of "rat fink".
Iran saved a lot of money for R&D.
I imagine they invited the Russians and Chinese to come and pull it apart with them on the condition they shared some technology.
So this is how technology transfer happens these days. I think that the same people who get designers, engineers, etc. in one country to work on classified projects later sell that technology to some or all bidders. That's precisely the point of classifying information secret, isn't it? It creates an artificial scarcity and monopoly and some higher ups who have access to this information are in the best position to exploit this for their own personal benefit. The lower level engineers get neither the full deserved profit or credit for their work. I'm just speculating, but it sounds like a nice scam. Anyone here know if I've gotten it right?
What's next? Iranian space shuttle?
Food for Greg Hunter's Friday anti Iran (stealth pro Israeli) rant.
Otherwise GREAT site each Monday and Wednesday: guests, topics and all...than multiple personality disorder kicks in on Friday.
Going to have to learn how to say don't drone me bro in Farsi...
Here's an interesting article from an episode in the Black Sea.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html
I can see all the secret military parts sanctions are working just fine...took them 2 years to build it. Probably would take them a whole year to recreate an F-35
The F-35 is a piece of shit. Pierre Sprey who was a co-designer of the F-16, A-10 and who worked on the F-15 but quite to work on the F-16 has said the F-35 is junk. He said a 1950's era designed Mig-21 can beat it in a dog fight.
whats with the iranian military? They display a milatary drone but then lean against it a hand painted anti-us poster board with skulls instead of stars? How can you take a military seriously when they promote a military drone with the kind of poster you would make for a bake sale? The white lightning bolt down the middle is pretty "sweet" though.
Seriously though, Iran reverse engineered the captured drone? No, they paid china to reverse engineer their captured drone.
Actually, I luved the skulls instead of stars, it works on so many levels!
"Seriously though, Iran reverse engineered the captured drone? No, they paid china to reverse engineer their captured drone"
Yeah seriously ! Good on them -- Yeah go for it - winners are Grinners - must be a blow to USA imperalistic pride -- to have to admit they lost the Drone in the first place & YES the Iranians are clever enough to build one !
Credit where Credits due !!!!
3 Years? With all the free photos available over the web?
I'm sure H4sbr() or Ma++3l probably took their take of the photos; and made several scale model toys for several years by now..
Correct that: the ToyCos probably could have done that from photos displayed in the General Atomics Shareholder Prospectus...