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Iran Releases Video Of Captured US Drone Plane
Due to our less than formidable Farsi skills, we present the following Iranian video showing the captured downed US drone plane without commentary. And as they reverse engineer our planes, so we reverse engineer their state media released video.
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By sheer chance I had done the right thing. This was a special bomb,
one each issued to us for this mission with instructions to use them if we
found ways to make them effective. The squawking I heard as I threw it was
the bomb shouting in skinny talk (free translation): "I'm a thirty-second
bomb! I'm a thirty-second bomb! Twenty-nine! . . . twenty-eight! . . .
twenty-seven! -- "
It was supposed to frazzle their nerves. Maybe it did; it certainly
frazzled mine. Kinder to shoot a man. I didn't wait for the countdown; I
jumped, while I wondered whether they would find enough doors and windows to
swarm out in time.
http://www.afn.org/~afn61198/Books/Heinlein%20-%20Starship%20Troopers.htm
Agreed....the video and the drone look like they were constructed in my Mom's basement. Not quite buyin this...
Maybe it's a sort of Trojan Horse and the USA 'gave' it to the Iranians on purpose for disinformation or provocation reasons
or maybe it's all legit and they fucked up royaly on this, but I bet Russian and Chinese experts will quickly know what's under the hood of this
Look Aziz!
A flashdrive, let's plug it into the mainframe and see what information it has.
Yes, it may be much bigger on the inside than it appeas on the outside.
They clearly got a hold of w Paul Teutul Jr.'s latest build.
It would appear that Mikey snuck it out for an extended road trip & managed to get lost.
ROFL... like a vimana from the Hindu legends!
It probably contains a suitcase nuke. The US will detonate it, and then say the explosion 'proves' the Iranians "are developing nuclear weapons - NOW can we invade???"
Fake.
For one thing, it would be BLACK.
For another, it would be scattered in tattered pieces all over a football field.
You watch to much TV thinking all craft are black , next you will be saying that somone stoll the propeller
If it's not black, it's visible at night to the naked eye, whilst flying at 58,000 feet, and it wouldn't be too stealthy.
at 58,000 feet it could be Miami Vice 1985 Day Glow Pink and still be invisible. But I suspect you know that...
You get a + for referencing Miami Vice, dude.
I'm wearing a blazer with the sleeves rolled up and a t-shirt. (should be WB7's)
This is a day-time spy plane. It is not a night-fighter. It has the same color as all US combat fighters.
I smell a rat with this video. This thing was flying high and is made of composite materials. Where's the damage?
That's the fist gleaming white/bannana stealth plane in the world. It looks as slick as a surfboard. Did they buy this Battlestar Gallactica prop on EBay? cause it sure don't look legit to me.
It was a remote-controlled aircraft. Iranians and their "friends" tookover it in-flight and landed on their airfield.
It is a USAF and pentagon catastrophe. Now, the entire US remote-controlled flight strategy must be changed since USAF do not know what happened.
I see a Russian hand in it since it would not be up to Iranian know-how expertise to do such super things.
A kung Fu master might suggest that discounting the skills, sense of purpose and direction of civilizations as seasoned as Iran's indicates a flawed sense of survival.
We live in a young immature braggadocios size / status queen pretend to be rich by adorning ourselves in shabby sheik Wal Mart "blue light special" bling that looks just like the real bling "real" rich people flash hord conglomerate box padding gaggle of demographically parsed comfort / fear zone tribes. Many of us can't even point to Iran on a map, much less distinguish a consumer feeding lot from a republic.
It does have a dent on the l/h leading edge - looks like aluminum rather than composite too. Hmmmm. . .
It looks like it was made in the wood shop - but they didn't quite get the bottom finished. Nice high-speed aerodynamic furnace grill there, boys.
Yes, this is a joke, right? If these guys are tinkering with nukes, I think they will punch their own tickets and the problem will solve itself.
Yes the Grill does look shoddy but those things are not built for speed but reliability, those type spy planes are still in testing phase so no wonder the design is not 100% perfect
At a few MILL a pop, looks like they could spring for NORTON,(eyes roll) at least..............shessssssssssh,
Another $100 million thrown away.
Thanks B and the rest of the Military Industrial Complex.
Don't think of it as "thrown away" but as a donation to the Iranian National Defense R&D program. :D
The Chinese National Defense R&D program, more likely... just like the stealth copter used during the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
2001 in tora bora? oh wait, you mean that staged piece of bullshit put on a few months back... can't wait for the official hollywood version. no doubt it will be more enteraining the Washington staged production.
I don't believe you at all.
Let's ask the participants if it was real?
To see the participants, like Seal Team 6, you'll have to wait for the release of Beetlejuice II.
A lie needs to be killed before it can be believed.
Recall:
The Emanuel Bin Ladden Goldstein, who neighbors described as "just" an old man that was n't the Bin dude with a young "bitchy" wife lived in a million dollar mansion that makes my grandmothers basement look like Wellington Palace and watch himself on 30 year old 13 inch color TVs is attacked by the glorious seal team 6 despite reports from locals that the big boom was a crashed US helicopter filled with Pashtun bodies (and body parts) wearing US military uniforms.
Flash boom bang while back at the Murder Inc. situation room, under the glittering disco ball of the Banana States of Amerika all our fav CSPAN celebs we're told and then untold as to watz they was watching was not the brave "666" head shot the Bin guy, but a free one hour porn pass viewing of Rahm Emanuel in Joan Crawford F*ck Me Quick Pumps all the while pirouetting and girlie giggling in his best alto, "8 inches or less" and then again changed topics, later, with an attempt to shop a phony beardless Bin with a gusher zit in the membrane and digitally masked Bin Beard from an NYC costume shop on Lex and 59th, and then photoshop that little piece of work over a frame from "Night Hawk Steak Dinner Down With Tatter Tots" - when none conscious bought it, and with the fore wisdom the unconscious don't care - the "test" shopped double photo-shopped flop was pulled and immediately replaced by absolute hearsay proof from carny barkers on MSNBC or CNN or FOX saying it was so, cross their hearts or die, with a new improve story asserting that right next to a PhotoMat in the parking lot of a Pakistani Wal Mart there was a 30 minute DNA Sequencing kiosk that reported the DNA collected from the Bin in the Million Dollar Mansion watching the cheap TV matched the DNA of one of his sisters - and if that was not enough - the Demise of Bin story was later punctuated - we was told - with the "buried at sea" shtick to avoid Islamic burial sensitivities, which the US has a lot of experience with, threw the Bin carcass overboard to pow wow with the ghost of Davy Jones (expect an IR reality Ghia Head Sponsored Series "I saw Bin's Ghost" TV series. PS - the only issue Islam has with dead bodies is the pragmatic ASAP disposal of `em cause they smell bad and Muslims don't like eating with Blow Flies buzzing round - IOW - they ain't like them white blue eyed Cecil B De Mill Egyptians 4-sure).
Every American blew milk out their nose when they heard that un!
Fianally for a grand finale, and almost as though scripted by the Great Self Felate Clancy hisself, glorious Seal Team 666, that were initially reported by neighbors of CorpseSickle Bin #4, in the million dollar mansion watching the cheap TV and constantly sending his wife off to Wal Mart to get more extension plugs (he did have a fetish for exposed wiring), as a bunch of GI Joe costumed Pashtun Body parts scattered all over the place then die again or not die again or their ghosts (Spirit of Seal 666) from the Bin raid (or maybe not) again bravely die in some heroic ball of fire later someplace else - and like all the other shopped facts of Head Shot Bin on the River Kuai - not one f*cking piece of material evidence as been offered as proof.
The CIA should have known Bin was up to something when he ordered 2 dozen box cutters from Ace hardware round the time PNAC was pleading for a "new pearl harbor like event" and Monica's keepsake stain forced Billy Bob "I like Tug Jobs from Fat Girls with not too many pimples" to sign the repeal of Glass Steagall.
100m ?? This technology gets to Russia and others and it cost way more to develop. Now the loss will be completely reverse engineered.
Well, someone should have considered this possibility and armed the drone for remote detonation. A simple self-destruct procedure could have cured this problem. Hubris and lack of forward thinking.
MmmHmmm. And then your enemies or a mole discover the detonation codes and blow up all your hardware while it's sitting in your airfield...
Your son is starring in a transgender porn film.
Is that true?
RTM, I am pretty sure that would be a bargain basement model. Hey I did find this though for those who mentioned this capability earlier:
Navigation technologyThe RQ-170 can be controlled either manually from the GCS or through autonomous mode. An automatic launch and recovery (ALR) system facilitates the aircraft to land safely when communication with the control station fails.
The GCS tracks, controls and monitors the RQ-170 by transferring commands to the vehicle via LOS SATCOM data link.
When did Zod become a park ranger?
Now hiring firmware hackers from around the world!
hey there's a USB port!
Cool.
But is there HDMI?
Hmmm?
Mmmm?
aahhhhhhh!
This does not look like a US drone. Well, ok, it kinda looks like one, but either the light is terrible, or this thing is made of the wrong material.
Perhaps the paint job is to make it hard to see from above while landed amongst sand?
Let's see the landing gear. Drones also don't have a grille in the intake.
Again, perhaps the grill is meant to protect the intake from sand storms and schtuff amongst the sand. What are you, CIA counter intelligence?
The last bit of 'terrifying' propaganda out of Iran was a clearly photoshopped missile launch. This looks like an unpainted fibreglass mockup, not the real thing.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/video-phantom-ray-drone-makes-maiden-solo-flight
A good close-up here:
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/iran-shoots-down-a-u-s-stealth-drone-and-warns-against-incursions/
No grille, painted grey.
Yeah, it does look shiny which you'd think wouldn't be the greatest characteristic of a stealth UAV. And no landing gear. Not sure why they would cover it unless that is harder to duplicate.
No exposed fasteners, very smooth matte surface, clearly marked with military designations, no grille, leading edge clearly differentiated, excellent quality construction. Yup Iran are a bunch of supercillious wankers.
Everyone is a supercillious wanker. All world leaders point at other leaders as bad, they are all right and all covering for their own shenanigans. And the band played on.
NOT THE SAME DRONE.
YOUR DRONE SAYS BOEING.
THIS DRONE WAS MADE BY LOCKHEED.
PUT THE CLANCY NOVEL DOWN AND START PAYING ATTENTION.
Second article has a lockheed drone. Pretty sure drones have no grilles and are painted grey.
Sorry for yelling.
In the olden days of flying, they used to paint the top of the plane the same color of the terrain they would be operating in. And the bottom of the plane a buff grey or very light blue or seafoam grey.
So when a pilot above would look down on said plane, it would blend into the terrain and be harder to make out.
When someone on the ground would look up, the bottom would blend with the sky and be harder to make out.
So it doesn't surprise me that the drone is desert color on the top. That way just in case someone was looking down upon it, it'd look like the rocky desert floor.
I'm sure Lockheed has many color schemes you can choose from, say Baghdad Brown, to Kamchatka White. They might even have some Sarajevo Green left over from a few years ago.
Grills are used to mask IR signatures not normally found in drones but this drone was flying over hostile territory so perhaps equipped to defeat IR homing missiles.
IR signatures are not masked at the inlet. A grille over the inlet can cause a compressor stall condition.
This drone is a fabrication of some kind, meant to either propagandize or to allow Iran to believe they took down a sophisticated drone, when in fact, its a dummy meant to set off alarms.
Not in the least bit unusual from the military strategy standpoint. Shows what a bunch of goat fuckers the Iranians are.
Compressor stall? Maybe if you could snap those grills shut, but that turbofan is seated far enough back not to have any kind of air turbulance bother it from the grill.
There very much is an exaggerated IR signature at the inlet. First you have this large gaping cold maw funneling 1000s of cubic feet of air per minute. Then on the edges of the inlet there is a lot of friction caused by all the air rubbing on the matte colored inlet sides, fillets etc. So yeah it's a few degrees hotter than the big dark cold spot. And when FLIR stares at something it looks for contrast.
The grill itself acts as sort of a heat sink, sinking away the heat from the inlet edges and providing a uniform surface for the friction induced heat to spread to. It also covers up that large cold wind sucking hole, and as a bonus might help hide the hot turbofan blades from some FLIR eyeball getting a frontal shot. But I'm guessing the turbofan is recessed and offset somehow from the intake as well.
Thanks I did not want to school him..
Here are some neat pictures of the F-117, note all the grills sticking to it willy-nilly!
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/09/stuff_eng_detail_f117.htm
It's got more grills than a char broil!
That grill is some of the best heat shielding you could ever get on the cheap. It's more a grill of tubes, you see? It masks the heat sig coming off the engines so that only a straight look down the pipes would be of use to anything heat-seeking. Google "Coroplast grid spot" for the photographer's equivalent. Quite ingenious, really.
The lack of knowledge on alternative propultion systems on this site is quite worrying. Next you will be saying it runs on a scram jet
Looks like the grill from a '57 Chevy.
More like a Dodge Challenger.
No markings, no paint. It looks like it's constructed of foam.
Little tidbit, the chances of Iran reverse engineering this tech are the same as our general chances: zero.
Very easy to discover all the programs and frequencies it uses though.
Very true. Guess we'll see how well they do by either a lack of drones over Iran or more drone captures.
bad drone, bad drone! you know you should not stray!
well, that's the beauty of them, no pilot in custody
Is Hans Solo inside hiding?
It's is a shame Alec Baldwin could not take one from LAX back to LaGuardia.
"this is not the drone you are looking for."
Those hats are smug. Gives them credibility IMO.
Government issued trucker hats will be currency in the future.
Where's the TSA logo?
They've been watching LSU football. If it works for Les Miles, it can work for an Iranian.
Ahmadinejad should be immediately captured by a Spec. operation and sentenced to the electric chair on American soil.
It is NOT acceptable to steal technological secrets from a superpower like us and then to brag about it on Youtube
you mean Guantanamo, the "place that has no applicable laws and treaties"
Ah, by those metrics, he could be taken to Europe as well!
he says payment in non us dollars .remote control and battery not included
I think the drone is in China already.
It's back home then. Everything is made in China isn't it. I mean if it will save a few bucks why not?
TROJAN HORSE? HAHAHAHA....no
Skynet ready.
have a video cam watch as their top scientists crowd around it and *BOOM*
Suicide Bomber 2.0
The Gods Must Be Crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gCQIGiXf0JA
Tomorrow's Headline:
CAPTURED US DRONE DESTROYED IN US DRONE STRIKE
That's clearly an aircraft carrier roomba that automatically sweeps the deck of the carrier.
Iran is full of shit
That thing wasn't shot down. Maybe shot down using hot air out of their asses.
They claimed it was taken down by their electronic warfare unit. As shitty as their security is (the video streams are transmitted without encryption), I believe it.
lol.
They shot it down with mind beams.
What are you not an expert on?
Listen Rex, it's common sense that thing wasn't shot down.
Look at it. NO DAMAGE AT ALL. It's in pristine condition.
If Iran has this complex "electronic warfare unit" than tons of these things would have been shot down already.
Use your peanut.
This is state run propaganda.
Yeah, it's hard to disagree w/that.
but you can't see the bottom of it, can you? i think one way you could get one of these things down would be to fly past it in a jet aircraft, create some turbulence, by the time the thing recovers its out of signal range of the controller. which is somewhat how the SAM missile system works, assuming the drone has some automatic counter measures to avoid incoming targets. once you force it down to a low altitude you can drive the thing yourself if you have the tools, and lets pretend the Chinese really did this, and gave it to Iran for propaganda purposes.
It was taken down with a tractor beam.
And it has no engine so it must run on anti graviton protons.
Let's get our cars to run on whatever that thing has. That thing runs on imagination, how do we incorporate that into my Navigator.
you mean it crashed - nah, those birds are amazingly well done nowadays
correction: Iran is full of oil - that China needs
Um, yea well Iran is ALREADY shipping most of its oil to China. So youre saying this is all an elaborate scheme with double crosses thruout to make us invade Iran to hand CHina its oil that its already getting? I dont believe it, Im siding with 'clusterfuck'.
That kind of foil doesn't just fall. Same principal behind them low impact heliocopter crashes when one of them GE Gatling guns shoots them GE turbines that drive them GE lift blades that be made by Chinese workers using US national security patents in them Chinese (exotic fabrics) Teflon and Kevlar textile mills.
Ever see them seeds with wings - they don't fall - they spiral (gamma?) their way down.
Understand that the security modules for them drone's operating software is most likely manufactured in the same middle eastern delight of raw exceptionalism that manufactures them "always seem to be leaking" microsoft security kernels. Contractors flagged in that small but conspicuous little city/state, like SAIC (S-CIA?) et otres, are the reason the US national security networks allowed blank passwords when them middle eastern contractors configured `em, and also, as well, did a bang up job servicing the systems managing them nuclear logistics control systems at Minot AFB.
IOW: The Iranians didn't have to shoot it down - they could of purchased this sofware from Best Buy and simply joysticked it down.
The problem is we don't appreciate the poerty of cost plus government contracting, Once had a summer job for a cost plus contruction contractor hanging sheet rock. Every couple of days, at the end of the shift, the boss had us breaking up several palettes of brand new sheet rock - looking back - it's beautiful - one could make a living, providing they could provide choir boys for the hat room at 1600 Penn Ave,, by just (and only) trashing government deliveries without ever doing anythig - say AL KADA did it - and you getz da money for nuttin and chicks for free.
Remember this: A unused weapon is a useless weapon. Empty all your ordinance stores before returning to base - burn it by having contests to determine which smacked zapped Xe merc can headshot the smallest child at the greatest distance. Do your part. Keep a copy of the DHS TIPS hotline number on you at all times (it's a federal offense not to). Protecting Us from those that hate us for our Freedom ain't cheap sap - but it be mighty profitable!
US taxpayer spends billions to develop high tech gadgets. Low paid military tech hits wrong buttons and lands gadget unharmed on enemy soil. Enemy gives technology to China to copy at no-cost.
Sounds how the rest of economy has been operating for years.
and while we're on the Iran China connections, do you suppose Bin Laden had any help from our number one trade partner? (check map to see how far it is from Kabul to the Chinese border) after all Bush signed WTO just two weeks later. remember when the Chinese took our spy plane?
is there an app for that?
Baloney. These things are flown by genUine military pilots. What pilot would land his spythingy where it could be taken by the Chinese. Oh, right, already happened? Never mind.
Skynet sent it in so it can deliver it's stuxnet virus into their R&D facility.
If they crack it open like a pinata, they may find the missing MF Global money and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa.
Gotta love that skulls and stripes flag they found for the show.
they shoulda had the faces of American banksters all over it, i would have sent them a donation, or a subscription to popular mechanics
It looks remarkable intact if it is the real thing. What happens when the big mullahs gather round to view and celebrate its capture? Would it not be special if it went up in smoke taking them all to their 72 virgins?
Farsi? Sounds terrorist to me.
Jerka derka Muhammed jihad.
Burka burka furka derka.
The mock US flag is hilarious.
Fucking A! Made my day that flag.
J F'n Christ Iran. If you are going to make a "fake" US drone, perhaps you should have studied the book on creating the lunar landing in a Hollywood sound studio first. I've made more life like paper maches as a child than this propaganda bullshit drone you're trying to pass as real.
It's a Trojan drone.
It looks so crappy that it circled completely around and became plausable.
Translation: An Iranian youth with a smart phone noticed a strange notification on his bluetooth connection. "New Hardware Found - RQ170 Advanced US Spyplane. Install or Cancel ?"
It remarkably has no engine.
It runs on unicorn tears.
Monkeys fighting over oil.
Wasn't John Bolton supposed to ride that barebacked down?
Not shot down. Possible emergency 'out of fuel' autopilot landing in agreement with Pentagon release, except, why no autodestruct?
Why didn't they show anything about propulsion? OK, air intake, but what makes it go?
I wish I spoke Farsi, but this is not passing the smell test.
Hopefully, after Iran reverse-engineers it, they'll sell US citizens the hacks to disable them, before corporations and government turn them on us.
Hm, I'm afraid that sheriff who wants to get rid of some rioting US citizens has an easy job, from now on. No reverse engineering needed ....
Colonel Klink at the Pentagon says" I Know Nuddink"
The Roswell Alien museum is reporting a theft of one of their displays....
US military should have contacted the Bernank about a "self-destruct" mechanism.......
That's a Mythbusters prop. You can tell by the 'Intel Inside' stickers on the sides.
They did not shoot it down, Microsoft Windows just did what it can do best! :) "WHAT YOU MEAN JOYSTICK IS NOT RESPONDING!? SOMEBODY...CALL SOMEBODY!"
Turn it off and reboot.
Call tech support.
Helpdesk in Bangalore:"... mister, your support contract just expired. We are just a subsidiary of IBM/Oracle , so please be so kind to add some $400 Bn. to your account, and we'll help you in no time "
If that is the real deal which I don't believe it is, there is no way that that was shot down.
EDIT: Also if it is indeed real how freakin' dumb can they be to park it out in the open like that. HAHA
They have it because it was convenient for them to have it. Merely another piece of an unfinished puzzle.
Please elaborate. Oh and who's junking me? Pussy.
It's nothing more than bait, (for numerous parties). The American public is sooooo gullible don't you know?
Obviously, the good parts of the drone are missing in this presentation.
These are not the drones you are looking for...
Maybe they want them to have it because they put another STUPNEX virus on it. I seen the Empire do somthing similar in Return of the Jedi. It's a trap." -Admiral Akbar
Those guys look like Cubans.
right, and its not that its really fucking cold in the warehouse where they have that thing, that's cigar smoke they're exhaling.
It needs a little red eye scanning back and forth ala Battlestar Galactica.
or maybe night rider
O la paloma blanca, i'm just a bird in the sky
the landing gear either didn't deploy, or was broken, or the thing crashed as they say, so they put it up on blocks. i suppose there are some Chinese engineers standing just out of camera sight waiting to put their wrenches to the thing.
Ali, another close-up on the evil vent.
Come on, drones are not exactly high tech: You can also make one yourself: diydrones.com
A little bit Arduino, stealing your kid's toy and a little bit of soldiering and Voila! :)
Actually, it's the Fed's drone. It veered off course from Europe and crashed because they packed too many dollars in the bomb bay.
it must have crash landed in a pool full of pillows
No, they used a net and snared it as it cruised by...
Right now some poor enlisted bastard is in a 'front leaning rest position' while the rest of his platoon watches the Iranian video. And Iran have some class... Really, a US flag with skulls - that's sooo 80's.
Well, that incident with US soldiers playing Van Halen, Panama was totally tasteless...in the 80's.
Dis is Peggy
Contractor for QR 710. We design encryption for QR guidance.
Sample: Ouya ona ecodeda uroa oftwaresa
Peggy
Im not buying it,but the sheeple will.
looks more like it landed, not shot down.
Trojan Horse?
US "crashed" it for a pretext to invade to get it back. Anyway,
it's in a crate halfway to china with a note asking for 50000 copies.
It'll be on the shelves of ToysRus in time for xmas.