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I think the drone was given to the Iranians. There are two reasons that could be the case.Either Obama wants to help out his coreligionists in their war against the Infidel or it could be a case of giving them a fake piece of equipment, one that has something we want them to have that will mess up their tech or severely mislead them about our tech. It would not be the first time this has been done. Arguably the "loss" of the Pueblo to the Norks was such an operation. With the capture of that ship the Norks got a code machine that the Russians thought they needed. Such machines should have been usable by anyone to send undecipherable messages (in that era).
We had not been breaking out the soviet codes very well at all. A year or so after the Pueblo we were reading everything they had. That code machine seems to have been rigged to be slightly other than random. Under Reagan we allowed the Soviets to think they had stolen embargoed software and computer equipment that they needed badly for their arms and gas pipeline projects. It caused them to spend all their money running down blind alleys.