[Tonytitan]

Here's another possibility: LockMart built this as a Trojan Horse intending it to be landed in hostile territory and captured/analyzed by foreign intel. When they try to apply what they reverse engineer out of it into home grown copies and they start feeding intel to the US, what kind of intel coup would that be. Who knows what little malware goodies have been planted into the thing waiting to be uploaded.

[LibFreeUSA]

China and Russia already bidding for this, no doubt.

Why can’t there be a ‘self-destruct’ mechanism in this ‘high value’ piece of equipment?

[A. Patriot]

Has anyone wondered if we have some traitors inside the Air Force who “delivered” the drone to the Iranians? Enquiring minds want to know.

[khnyny]

Perhaps this drone was allowed to be “captured”, lol. Let your imaginations run wild...

[Evergolightly]

So we do not have self destruct mechanism built in? Or we can not program a cruise missle to find and destroy this before they can reverse engineer it?

Interesting development.