Posted on 11/12/2014 11:35:05 AM PST by Fali_G
Iranian state TV has released video footage claiming the country has successfully replicated a highly sophisticated U.S. stealth drone that crashed over Iran in 2011.
The video released Wednesday includes both aerial and ground footage, demonstrating a black pilotless aircraft closely resembling a RQ-170 sentinel stealth drone, flying over a mountainous area of Iran before touching down at an unmanned air base.
Segments of the video appear to be genuine, David Cenciotti, founder of “The Aviatonist” a military aviation blog said, while some of the frames showing the drone landing appear to be computer generated, showing a smaller prototype model of the drone, which flew four months ago.
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I think the “Nerf” on the side and the giant sponge nose cone gave it away.
It’s like that ChiCom propaganda video that used pirated footage from Topgun.
Or that documentary from the 1980s about the Soviet secret Mach-5 capable jet fighter with the thought-controlled weapons system ;-)
I would suppose the CG segment result when that part didn't go as planned.
It looks like a model, especially the takeoff sequence. I also notice that they didn’t show the complete landing sequence. Did it prang in?
Iran and its western trading partner friends influential in politics are posing such stories as distractions from Iran’s nuclear weapons program. They want every dollar that they can get today without regard for tomorrow, and they’ll facilitate millions of deaths tomorrow to get it.
that documentary was the Clint Eastwood movie “Firefox”
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