Sensitive equipment like this is always designed to self-destruct on its own or to reveal its location so we can do it manually. Something ain’t right in this picture....
Exactly.
I agree with you on that. All this technology and there is no mechanisms to remotely destroy it? Sounds like a design flaw!
If the drone displayed by Iran is the real thing, this begs two questions.
1. Did someone on “our side” land it in Iran on purpose?
2. Did Iran land it because they knew how to control and fly the drone. If that is the case, how in the hell did they get that info?
I agree. I have a suspicion that's probably going to catch a LOT of ridicule, but here goes...
What if the drone that landed in Iraq is a decoy? What if we actually wanted Iran, China and Russia to get their hands on it?
My evidence? No hard evidence, but a number of things that just don't add up.
1) As you stated, this type of equipment is always designed to self destruct.
2) The drone shown on TV by Iran just doesn't look right...When you compare the Iranian TV images with other shots of the same model drone, the intake grill doesn't look right, the joins between the wings and fuselage don't look right, and the gaps around the fuselage hatches are not right...not smooth and tight enough. It just doesn't look very stealthy to me.
3) Although it's possible (but unlikely) that the Iranians built a mockup in a few hours (explaining the problems I see in number 2), our side confirmed that it was an actual image of the one that landed in Iran. The drone shown on Iranian TV just looks too crude to be entirely real.
Flame away!