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Iran Says Building Copy of Captured US Drone

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Iran claimed that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy,the "secret codes," had been cracked, saying the spy plane now had "no hidden points.

It was inevitable.


April 22, 2012
Iran Says Building Copy of Captured US Drone | News | English
 
/shrugs

Good for them?

I mean, OK, so now they are going to have their own drone. It really doesn't mean much at all.
 
Maybe they can, but I doubt it. Look how long it took them to build a functioning centrifuge -- a much simpler device -- when they had the blueprints. More likely they sell it to the Chinese who probably could reverse engineer it.
 
I believe Iran is the victim of shrewd subterfuge.

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China could reverse engineer it and make for 1/3 the cost :shock:

Building one isn't as militarily valuable as gaining all it's secrets. Capturing a working Zero in WWII didn't lead us to create our own version of that aircraft, but it did lead to developing tactics to best them in battle.

I'll bet a shiny nickle Iran has a good deal of help in figuring out how the captured drone works.

Oh and a centrifuge is a simple concept but a booger to get exact enough to enrich uranium. More to it than spin it real fast over your head.
 
If they reverse engineered the drone maybe it will fly backwards so it will mirror their societal norms and legal system. I fail to see how an antiquated version of the US drone could effectively help these people.
 
The whole scenario was a pathetic display of incompetence. You have no business violating other countries airspace if you aren't even sensible enough to put a working self destruct device onto a drone.
 
I severely doubt it.

The guys that built that drone had this inevitability in mind.

I think it's chest thumping.
 
It's a drone - it's not like it has all of our secret military information stashed in it's innards - it's functions are basic - it likely carries only the bare necessities to do it's job, return, be preened, and get sent out again.

It's called a drone - not a full-intelligence-mobile-craft or something for a reason :roll:
 
Aunt Spiker said:
It's a drone - it's not like it has all of our secret military information stashed in it's innards - it's functions are basic - it likely carries only the bare necessities to do it's job, return, be preened, and get sent out again.

It's called a drone - not a full-intelligence-mobile-craft or something for a reason :roll:
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It was supposed to be a stealth drone.

You know - those secrets. Of stealth tech.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
It's a drone - it's not like it has all of our secret military information stashed in it's innards - it's functions are basic - it likely carries only the bare necessities to do it's job, return, be preened, and get sent out again.

It's called a drone - not a full-intelligence-mobile-craft or something for a reason :roll:
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The intelligence is how to build a stealth airplane. Hard to believe we did not blow it up or go in and get it back.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
It's a drone - it's not like it has all of our secret military information stashed in it's innards - it's functions are basic - it likely carries only the bare necessities to do it's job, return, be preened, and get sent out again.

It's called a drone - not a full-intelligence-mobile-craft or something for a reason :roll:
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Nope....its serious

The fact that they have been able to look a it is troublesome and at some point, will be able to reverse engineer it and decrypted the sensitive systems onboard.

Someone truly ****ed up for not timely approving, the disintegration of this drone.
 
AdamT said:
Maybe they can, but I doubt it. Look how long it took them to build a functioning centrifuge -- a much simpler device -- when they had the blueprints. More likely they sell it to the Chinese who probably could reverse engineer it.
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The book of war:
Always pretend to be strong when weak. And weak when strong. As in hide your sucker punches.

Meh. Just a drone. So what?

Until some underground facility builds 30,000 of them and launches them all at once. All with preprogramed resupplying for 24/7 continuous bombing.

WW3 wont be nukes. It will be mass production high flying UAV bombers that can level many towns at once when in complete flock.
 
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