It is far larger than the Iranian fake.
By taking measurements from the video, assuming the men were 6 foot tall, the "aircraft" wingspan can be no more than 30 feet. The wingspan of a RQ-170 is no less than 46 feet.
Look at the seam where the wings join the fuselage. Is Lockheed Martin using duct tape or putty to cover the seam? The RQ-170 has no seam there because that's where the wheel wells are underside.
The color is all wrong. The intake grill is wrong.
If it was shot down or crashed, where's the damage?
If it was directed to land, how could they control it without crashing. They would show pictures of it on the ground with wheels down.
We know that the UAV ran out of fuel and crashed.
This isn't just a fake, it's a cheesy fake.
On the news it said the CIA or some government agency said it was ours; also that Obama didn’t want to get it back clandestinely so’s not to upset Iran. Smell test?????
I took one look at the original picture that was published, and thought it was a fake.
Yeah, like the photo shop image of rocket launches they released showing a faked extra rocket.
It is far larger than the Iranian fake.
fake?...figures, with our overwhelmed above his pay grade President
It's positively EdWoodian
Apparently those on the ground wanted to destroy what was left but were overruled by someone who did not want to enflame the Iranians. What?
My thinking would have put a JDAM on target...whther wrecked or partially intact. And if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was already there, all the better. It's way past time we paid them back with large interest for killing US soldiers in Iraq in border incursions there.
I wondered when I saw the picture how it looked like it had simply landed on an airfield. I think maybe they knew one had gone down and decided to make the most of it. Alternatively they got the thing but the wreckage would not be identifiable in a picture so they made their own. A fellow I work with makes exquisite model planes out of foam dinner plates and such that are near perfect scale models. It doesn’t take him a terribly long to do it. On some he works from pictures and finds out the measurements later but already has them right. He is a not bright person and I wish he could figure out how to sell that talent.
Can this administration ever be honest about...anything?
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I’m trying to remember the last propaganda picture the Iranians used showing a new ‘weapon’ that they were going to use. It had the flags draped in the background (same set-up) and ,I swear, the thing they showed looked like it had been spray painted with gold. Wish I could remember that picture. It was pretty laughable and cheesy. All that was needed was the ‘wheel spinners’ and it would have been complete.
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Even if this drone is real, it’s not going be flight-worthy because they don’t have the software and hardware to start it up and get it in to the air. Once it’s rolled out of the hangar, it might be able to become tracked by satellite back here.
"If it was shot down or crashed, where's the damage?"
What do you make of this?:
"John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a consulting firm, said he would have expected far more damage if the aircraft had hit the ground in an uncontrolled crash. But Richard F. Healing, an aviation consultant and former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said many unmanned vehicles were “basically gliders,” with large wings relative to their weight. If it ran out of fuel, he said, a drone “might come down gently” and be damaged only lightly if it did not hit a tree or building."
Cheesy or not, the propaganda worked.
We should have immediately responded with a self-destruct precision-guided munition. “So sorry you guys messed with our stuff!”
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