US Stealth UAV RQ-170 downed in IRAN

[somebozo]

Now Iran and China will become good friends!

 

[lt.fridz]

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The yanks say they lost one the Iranians say thay have one fine but that anit it, more likley they have a pile of parts sold to them by an enteprising taliban after it crashed in Afghanistan and the week delay was so they could make a mock up for propganda er i mean Press TY

If this was the 60s, a U2 had crashed in the Soviet Union and Gary Powers was on TV you would probably be saying:

This Gary Powers guy sure looks Russian to me!

 

[Always Neutral]

Now Iran and China will become good friends!

This has probably bridged the gap by 10 years. Bad loss for US.

 

[Vassnti]

What an idoiotic post - Learn to read US officials have admitted the pictures are authentic.Guess your ego is not allowing you to admit it or maybe you know more then US Defense Officials.
Official Confirms Authenticity Of Iranian TV Images Showing Lost U.S. Drone | Fox News

Be a first time you have belived fox news.

If you can skip the insults and explain why the wings look approximatley 4 times the height of the guys standing next to it then you will have proved me wrong.

Say the guys are arround 2m tall that would make what ever it is arround half the size of an rq 170, ego doesnt come into it its not our drone i dont care. Iran has some thing what it is just doent seem to be what people are calling it. Prove me wrong and you have my thanks

 

[Abii]

Be a first time you have belived fox news.

If you can skip the insults and explain why the wings look approximatley 4 times the height of the guys standing next to it then you will have proved me wrong.

Say the guys are arround 2m tall that would make what ever it is arround half the size of an rq 170, ego doesnt come into it its not our drone i dont care. Iran has some thing what it is just doent seem to be what people are calling it. Prove me wrong and you have my thanks

lmao
this guy is actually taking himself seriously
that's sad and cute at the same time

 

[longbrained]

Anyways, now with video and pictures it has been proven beyond doubt that gambit, was wrong and we were right.

 

[unicorn]

OMG in one piece.

 

[Abii]

CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone
Move Couched as 'Head Fake' to Trick Iran

CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone -- News from Antiwar.com

 

[Arman-Shahr]

Be a first time you have belived fox news.

Do you believe AP?

APNewsBreak: AP source: Video shows lost drone

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tehran's capture of a largely intact, top secret U.S. drone, which it displayed on state television, not only lays bare America's surveillance program over Iran, but it also puts sensitive, advanced technology in hostile hands.

A former U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press that the beige-colored drone featured in the more than two-minute video aired Thursday was indeed an RQ-170 Sentinel that is used for surveillance of Tehran's nuclear facilities. The U.S. military said it lost control of a drone earlier this week.

Iranian officials quickly claimed their military forces had downed the Sentinel with an electronic attack. But U.S. officials on Thursday flatly rejected the claim that any cyber or other electronic related activity was responsible for the loss of the drone.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the drone mission is classified.

The video, which showed Iranian officials examining the drone, provided the first real evidence of the Sentinel's capture. More important, it revealed the aircraft to be nearly in one piece.

That alone confirmed experts' contention that the classified aircraft can be programmed to land safely if its communications link is lost.

Robotics expert Peter Singer, who has written about the use of drones in war, said the Sentinel is programmed to circle in the air or land if its communications link is lost. Until the video came out, U.S. officials and other experts were suggesting the drone may have crashed, leaving Iran with only scattered pieces.

Pentagon officials on Thursday refused to comment on the drone, saying they do not talk about classified surveillance programs.

The episode, however, could be a serious setback for what has been an escalating surveillance program, aimed largely at Iran's nuclear facilities, that has gone on for years from a U.S. air base in Afghanistan and other bases in the region.

It gives the Iranians the opportunity to share or sell the drone to others, such as the Chinese and Russians, who might be better able to exploit any technological information gleaned from examining it.

U.S. officials are concerned that others may be able to reverse-engineer the chemical composition of the drone's radar-deflecting paint or the aircraft's sophisticated optics technology that allows operators to positively identify terror suspects from tens of thousands of feet in the air.

Adversaries also might be able to hack into the drone's database, although it is not clear whether they would be able to recover any data. Some surveillance technologies allow video to stream through to operators on the ground but do not store much collected data. If they do, it is encrypted.

Singer, of the Brookings Institution, said that while some of the mechanics of the aircraft are well known, some aspects — especially its sensors — would be important to countries like China.

"This is the jewel for them now," Singer said. "It depends on what was on the plane on this mission, but one sensor it has carried in the past is an AESA radar. This is a very advanced radar that really is a difference maker for our next generation of planes, not just drones, but also manned ones like F-22s and F-35s."

While it's not news that the U.S. spies on Iran, or that Iran knows it, the incident comes at a particularly sensitive time as the U.S. and other nations push for stronger sanctions against Tehran to stifle its nuclear ambitions.

The incident also could complicate U.S. relations with Afghanistan, according to Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official now with the Brookings Institution.

"This crash suddenly puts Afghanistan into the Iran crisis, which will make (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai very nervous and worried," said Riedel, who has advised the Obama White House on Afghanistan. "He is already a proxy in a war with Pakistan. Now he is a proxy in a covert war with Iran the Afghan people knew nothing about."

On Thursday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss ambassador to protest the drone's "invasion" of Iranian airspace, according to state TV. It said the ministry demanded an explanation and compensation from Washington.

The U.S. and Iran do not have diplomatic relations, and Switzerland represents American interests in Iran.

Instead, Iran called on the United Nations to condemn "the provocative and covert operations" that it said have increased and intensified in recent months.

In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Iran's U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, said his government considered the spy flight "tantamount to an act of hostility" and "violations and acts of aggression." He further warned "against the destructive consequences of the recurrence of such acts."

Iran is locked in a dispute with the U.S. and its allies over Tehran's nuclear program, which the West believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and that it seeks to generate electricity and produce isotopes to treat medical patients.

Iran confirmed for the first time in 2005 that the U.S. has been flying surveillance drones over its airspace to spy on its military and nuclear facilities.

In January, Tehran said two pilotless spy planes shot down over its airspace were operated by the U.S., and in July, media said Iranian military officials showed Russian experts several U.S. drones reportedly shot down in recent years.

This latest incident, however, gives Tehran a volatile propaganda tool.

In the video, Tehran displayed a banner at the foot of the drone that read "The U.S. cannot do a damn thing" — a quotation from Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini. Another banner was printed to look like the American flag, but had skulls instead of stars.

Iranian state radio has said the unmanned aircraft was detected over the eastern town of Kashmar, some 140 miles from the border with Afghanistan.

The Sentinel, made by Lockheed Martin, has been used in Afghanistan for years. It gained notoriety earlier this year when officials disclosed that one was used to keep watch on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan as the raid that killed him was taking place.

 

[Obambam]

This has probably bridged the gap by 10 years. Bad loss for US.

When you try to police the world with high end technology, you bound to "lose" some here and there. The best way to protect technology is to hide and not use it at all and save it for when you really need it.

 

[Mujraparty]

so here's my theory of what hapnd ...
drone's doin a recon over iran ,evading their radars , technical malfunction forces drone for emergency /controlled crash landing (hence the minimal damage) inside Iran's territory ,before CIA could launch a Co-ops to recover the drone ,iran finds the drone claims it bought down the drone (by taking control of it which is a load of BS )

noob here have mercy .

 

[Lankan Ranger]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/145742-pentagon-analyzing-iranian-footage-us-drone.html

 

[Abii]

so here's my theory of what hapnd ...
drone's doin a recon over iran ,evading their radars , technical malfunction forces drone for emergency /controlled crash landing (hence the minimal damage) inside Iran's territory ,before CIA could launch a Co-ops to recover the drone ,iran finds the drone claims it bought down the drone (by taking control of it which is a load of BS )

question for you. How did Iran know that a US drone has just crashed in some back water mountain in some remote location if Iran was so oblivious?

Right about now you should be feeling like a total ....

Maybe god came down to earth and told our armed forces that "a super duper secret stealth drone has just crashed in your territory, go and grab it, here are the coordinates."

 

[Mujraparty]

question for you. How did Iran know that a US drone has just crashed in some back water mountain in some remote location if Iran was so oblivious?

Right about now you should be feeling like a total ....

Maybe god came down to earth and told our armed forces that "a super duper secret stealth drone has just crashed in your territory, go and grab it, here are the coordinates."

not really ...what if some one saw it and informed the authorities..?after all its a remote location not mars, sometimes people do live n remote locations too..!!
hey ,go easy on me dude its just my theory u free to refute it without personal attacks

 

[Abii]

not really ...what if some one saw it and informed the authorities..?after all its a remote location not mars, sometimes people do live n remote locations too..!!
hey ,go easy on me dude its just my theory u free to refute it without personal attacks

well if you say stupid ****, people should be allowed to call you names, no? I think it's a fair deal.

And I don't know about India, but in Iran, remote locations are, as the name suggests, remote. Nobody lives in half the country. Plus, even in India and china you don't have people living on top of a random mountain in the middle of nowhere. And say somebody did live in the middle of nowehere, what would they do, call up the army and say "oh an RQ-170 just fell off the sky and I caught it" and then within an hour the army shows up and collects the damn thing? Are you sure you're not high on something?