Posted on 12/08/2011 7:39:16 PM PST by SMCC1
Mystery surrounds how American's most sophisticated spy plane was captured by Iran after it was paraded on Iranian state television earlier today in mint condition.
Iran claims the lost RQ-170 Sentinel was on a surveillance mission last week when it was detected by Iranians over Kashmar and was downed by their armed forces.
But the fact the drone is in such good shape contradicts Iran's claim it was shot down - and backs up U.S. claims that Tehran did not bring it down through electronic, cyber or any other means.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071741/Is-downed-U-S-stealth-drone-Iranian-TV-airs-footage-military-officials-inspecting-craft.html#ixzz1g0LLMLpg
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, let’s hope so anyhow. Maybe they blew the electronics in such a way as to keep them from being salvaged, but if what’s being shown is the real thing, we’ve lost a lot of stealth technology that is going to be reverse engineered by somebody.
The drone looks to be the real deal.
(Look at their insult to US of the desecration of our flag - on the wall behind the ragheads soldiers.)
It’s a fake, we have satellite photos of the crash site to prove it. Besides, the RQ-170 doesn’t have an intake grill. It’s all here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817979/posts
There’s no stealth technology in that UAV and the electronics are off the shelf - that’s my point - this is not a big deal. We lost an asset that was designed to be expendable and dumped into the lap of the enemy.
Exactly, the entire purpose to even having a UAV is to have a platform that can go into high-risk-of-being-shot-down areas.
With that in mind, you would only put technology on board that the enemy can’t use or obtain in other ways.
There sure are a lot of hand wringing bed-wetters around here...
Don’t discount the possibility of a controller of the craft being a closeted Muslim...
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