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US Stealth UAV RQ-170 downed in IRAN

Can someone translate the arabic on the american flags (around the drone)?
 
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They have probably embalmed the dead aircraft. That is why it looks a bit different from the live one
 
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Utter nonsense- (depending on whom you believe) it was shot down or crashed either way there would be IMMENSE and irreparable damaged caused to the craft (especially if it was shot down by a missile with EXPLOSIVES). Look at the vid, there is 0 damage to the UAV. Clearly a plastic model.


Cheap PR stunt turned EPIC FAIL!!

Your discounting of the possibility of the UAV being recovered fairly intact could also classify as utter nonsense. The damage is most likely on the underbelly during the crash and its quite possible that the landing gear and the optics etc. were destroyed which likely explains the reason as to why the Iranians have not provided any footage, photos of the underbelly of the aircraft.

The real question is not what they have gained, it is rather what they can do with it. Very many fairly clued up folks on the US side are concerned by this loss. Maybe the Russians or Chinese would be included in the reverse engineering.

With such type of operations, loss of this nature is very much a possibility and is not unprecedented.
 
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media report saying it lost control ...still intact may be landed on soft sand of desert. Seem lower part is badly damage that's why hiding with curtain. But its useless machine, all security system locked and lost all data.
 
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