Posted on 12/08/2011 10:27:28 AM PST by ColdOne
A U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran.
"Yep, that's it," the official told Fox News. "And it's intact."
U.S. officials had been expecting the video to appear. The footage comes after Iran claimed to have shot down the RQ-170 drone after it wandered into its airspace.
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One official told Fox News on Thursday that the incident is a huge loss and makes the top-secret helicopter tail lost during the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan "look like a pittance." The official said there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese, in addition to using it themselves.
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Didn’t any of the incompetents whop developed the thing think to put a demolition in the thing so when it was “out of their control” it would blow itself to pieces?????? I bet the developers made a lot of money developing it.
This makes no sense.
this thing auto-landed, gear down, on a smooth surface. ON ITS OWN?????
Something REALLY smells here.
ANY other aircraft would be visibly damaged.
Chinese will be selling knockoffs of this within a year, idrone, buy it now.
Yeah right.
Our president is playing for the other side.
1. “Developers” only design to the requirements in the contract.
2. There are many good reasons NOT to place a destruct charge on a drone.
a) Risk to ground crew during servicing.
b) Better solutions to out of comm connect issues.
There goes 20 years of our technological military advantage.
In 10 years, the world will have caught up. America’s standing in the world economically and now militarilly is in free fall as evil races to catch up without having to spend all the R&D money.
What about the North Koreans? Can we assume the 'self destruct' software wasn't working? Please - we DO have self destruct software on these babies, right?
I wonder if it was piloted by a Muslim Brotherhood member from our wonderful outreach program? You know, to show how PC we are?
“What happened to your drone, Achmed?”
“Gee, I don’t know. I was flying around and suddenly it landed at Tehran International Airport. En selah.”
I wonder if it was piloted by a Muslim Brotherhood member from our wonderful outreach program? You know, to show how PC we are?
“What happened to your drone, Achmed?”
“Gee, I don’t know. I was flying around and suddenly it landed at Tehran International Airport. En selah.”
This drone looks like it’s in near mint condition. I assume this drone fell out of the sky either by malfunction or being shot down. How is it in such good condition? It looks like it just came off the assembly line...
Something REALLY smells here.
ANY other aircraft would be visibly damaged.
Not really, the entire purpose was to get the drone to China in return for their support of Obama's 2012 reelection. Looking at in that context, it landing in Iran, on it's own, without a scratch, makes perfect sense.
There has been talk that it was hijacked by Russian Electronic Warfare equipment. If this is true, it would explain why it was not destroyed and that it landed intact. The Iranians were controlling the flight and landing.
Reagan would have demanded it be returned within 24 hours or the bombs start falling and he would have backed that up with action. Obama does nothing. How many Americans will die in the future because of this?
If this was some sort of CIA coup, I will happily give Obama credit. The alternative seems just to damaging otherwise.
“Something REALLY smells here.”
I’m totally with you. We just let our highest-value asset be programmed to just turn itself over the enemy? It didn’t have self-destruct capability? Did the Iranians crack the crypto link? Did Obama just hand it over? What the hell is going on here? None of this adds up.
Michael Savage pegged this on day one!
He questioned whether or not this thing was shot down.
Now we know!
Will there be an investigation???????
Not on Zero’s watch.
The Iranians will make a fortune off of this. The thing is huge.
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