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Iran Teaches Students How To Hunt Drones
Popular Science ^ | 8/20/2013 | Kelsey D. Atherton

Posted on 08/21/2013 11:28:52 AM PDT by steelhead_trout

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard will teach Iranian teenagers how to hunt drones, according to reformist Iranian newspaper Etemaad daily and semi-official Fars news agency. Etemaad daily quotes Ali Fazli, the acting general in charge of the Revolutionary Guard's Basij, a paramilitary volunteer militia infamous for attacking pro-democracy supporters, saying drone-hunting will be part of high school classes on "Defensive Readiness."

Iran claims it previously hunted American drones; most notably, in December 2011, it claimed it captured a RQ-170 stealth drone. There's a possibility the RQ-170 was not shot out of the sky, but instead compromised by "spoofing," where hackers feed the drone new GPS coordinates, forcing it to land and then capturing it. (The U.S. government denied that this was the case, claiming instead a technical problem.) After the RQ-170's capture, Iran paraded it around, and has continued to do so for two years now

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; cowardice; drones; spying
Never thought I'd have anything good to say about Iran, but it's about time someone stood up to these infernal devices. Wonder if they'll offer an online extension course for American students (just kidding!)?
1 posted on 08/21/2013 11:28:52 AM PDT by steelhead_trout
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To: steelhead_trout

Of course, we do know that drones can be taught to hunt mosques.


2 posted on 08/21/2013 11:30:39 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: steelhead_trout

Maybe the NRA could develop a new course for us Americans in need of similar skills.


3 posted on 08/21/2013 11:31:46 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: steelhead_trout

I recall that the Day By Day commic had a drone hunting section. I will see if I can find it.


4 posted on 08/21/2013 11:32:14 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: steelhead_trout

Yeah. Send their instructors over here when they’re finished...: )


5 posted on 08/21/2013 11:36:23 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Brian Kopp DPM

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2012/06/06/#006552
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2012/06/07/
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2012/06/08/
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2012/06/09/


6 posted on 08/21/2013 11:36:25 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: Brian Kopp DPM

Out our way, we think drones are a type of skeet.


7 posted on 08/21/2013 11:40:39 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: steelhead_trout

There is a nice drone hunting scene in the film “The Bourne Legacy”


8 posted on 08/21/2013 11:40:42 AM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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Out our way, we think drones are a type of skeet.

Hey, this could lead to an interesting thread discussion...I'll start.

Let's see, 12 ga/.00 buck for those pesky little skeet's that buzz around your yard.

M2 for those larger dodo bird types doing flyovers....

What's your preferred choice?

9 posted on 08/21/2013 11:49:55 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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The drone hunt sequence begins at 29:50 and runs till he plants the tracker on the wolf and the wolf takes a hellfire missile hit from the 2nd drone.

http://viooz.co/movies/12564-the-bourne-legacy-2012.html


10 posted on 08/21/2013 11:50:09 AM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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Let's see, 12 ga/.00 buck for those pesky little skeet's that buzz around your yard. M2 for those larger dodo bird types doing flyovers....

Some of them can get pretty far up. I'm looking at a slightly used 88 for those.
11 posted on 08/21/2013 11:55:38 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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Some of them can get pretty far up. I'm looking at a slightly used 88 for those.

Hmmm, good point.

Wonder if we could get our hands on some of those missing....oops, I best not finish that thought.

12 posted on 08/21/2013 11:59:23 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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Wonder if we could get our hands on some of those missing....oops, I best not finish that thought.

Why? "What difference does it make?" Besides, why should we be the only ones that DON'T have one?
13 posted on 08/21/2013 12:01:59 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: donmeaker
YouTube: Shotgun vs Drone - UAV Torture Test by Game of Drones
14 posted on 08/21/2013 12:03:00 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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LOL...and I agree.


15 posted on 08/21/2013 12:12:48 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: steelhead_trout

No joke. It’d be a great optional PE credit.


16 posted on 08/21/2013 12:30:46 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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Wonder if they offer a correspondence course in English?


17 posted on 08/21/2013 10:03:23 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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