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'Iran begins to construct copy of US drone'
2012-04-22
Three Iran officials say that Iran's construction of new drone, based on data decoded, extracted from downed US spy plane.

Iran has started to construct a duplicate of the US-manufactured unmanned aerial vehicle Tehran claims it downed last year when it was spotted flying over Iranian territory, Iranian news agency Mehr reported Sunday according to a Revolutionary Guards commander.

Iran's construction of the new drone, announced by Revolutionary Guards Commander Brigadier Hajih Zadeh to commemorate the founding of the Revolutionary Guards, is based on data extracted from the downed spy plane, which the Iranian military claims it was able to ground without causing substantial damage to the aircraft.

Iran Navy Commander General Ali Fadavi and General Amirali Hajizadeh, IRGC Aerospace Commander also discussed Iran's successful decoding of the memory of the US's R.Q. 170 Stealth drone, according to an Iranian News Agency (IRNA) report on Sunday. The two commanders added that Iran repaired any minor damage that had been caused to the drone.
Posted by:tipper

#3  DO you seriously think they can copy the technology. A simple variant will emerge with aspects of the drone and a huge leap forward for Iranian drone capabilities. Thats the good news.
That they sold every aspect of it to Russia and China, and that they willl not only replicate our sate-of-the-art in their drones, but they will exploit the identified vulnerabilities in what we operate now in collections ops against their interests. (Anybody else note the Seychelles connections of PLA basing and drone crashes?)
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2012-04-22 13:03  

#2  LOL. They're gonna copy it? Good luck with that.
Posted by: Hellfish   2012-04-22 12:42  

#1  I heard that Bambi blocked the US Military's request to bomb the downed drone right after it crashed. Way to go big O.
Posted by: Vespasian Dark Lord of the Swedes6537   2012-04-22 12:26  

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