Posted on 09/13/2023 6:52:29 AM PDT by Starman417
Barack Obama is a key player in the war in Ukraine. He handed over an advanced stealth drone for Iran to copy.
In 2011 Iran somehow came into possession of an advanced RQ 170 US drone aircraft. At first Obama denied it.
Not long after, though, Obama was begging Iran to return the drone.The White House has rejected a claim by Iran that it has captured an unmanned aircraft belonging to the United States.
Iranian state media reported the drone was caught by the country's military forces after it violated its airspace.
A spokesman for President Barack Obama said there was "no evidence" the claim was true.
President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States has asked Iran to return a U.S. drone aircraft that Iran claims it recently brought down in Iranian territory.
“We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said in a news conference, alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Iran told Obama to stick it.
A top Iranian military official previously vowed not to return the unmanned American stealth plane that it says it has.
“No nation welcomes other countries’ spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin,” said Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran’s military, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday.
“It makes no difference where this drone originated and which group or country sent it to invade our airspace,” Salami said. “This was an act of invasion and belligerence.”
Iran made good use of the drone. By 2014 it had reverse engineered the drone and flew their own copy.
An Iranian copy of a U.S. drone that was deemed lost in 2011 has taken its first flight, its state news agency reported Monday.You might notice that I said Obama had allowed to come into possession of the drone. In my opinion it was a technology transfer. Obama refused to destroy the drone once it had come to Earth. It landed wholly intact. The drone was not shot down. All the gift lacked was a bow neatly attached. Perhaps it was part of a deal to get Iran to sign onto the JCPOA (which Iran violated from day one).Iran reported in December 2011 that it had captured a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance drone, a military stealth vehicle reportedly equipped with communication and nuclear surveillance technology. After news of the drone’s flight was reported by IRNA, Iranian commanders reaffirmed that valuable technology had been extracted from the American drone, according to Reuters.
With this technology gift, Iran happily went on to become a global producer of drones.
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Voters elected Barack Obama twice yep you can’t fool the American voters huh.
To prove it they voted for Biden
To be fair, the Shahed series of Iranian drones use unrelated technologies. For one thing, they are based on off the shelf physical and electronic components, from their processors to their consumer grade GPS. For another, these Shaheds havent got any of the advanced capabilities of the US drone. They have no real-time capabilities, terrain radars, satcom datalink, EW capabilities, etc.
If Iran managed to reverse engineer anything from this 15-year old thing, it isn’t apparent.
“Voters elected Barack Obama twice...”
Hey, look everybody, here’s someone who still thinks we have fair elections!
It’s not the votes that count it’s who counts the votes.
Indeed a new system is required for counting.
Dangling chads and bogus machines all over the pace.
Di I recall correctly? Iran shot down two US drones and reverse engineered them?
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