Posted on 12/09/2011 6:32:13 AM PST by Amigo04
Edited on 12/09/2011 6:59:37 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
U.S. officials have 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Yep its equivalent to the USSR getting a hold of a fully functual SR-71 in the early 1960s.
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?
Has anyone wondered if we have some traitors inside the Air Force who “delivered” the drone to the Iranians? Enquiring minds want to know.
Boy, you can say THAT again!
Lets assume this is correct, Iran is a huge country, how would they know it was down? Where to find it?
I think per the article above someone hacked the system and we were too stupid to change our system. I think the Russians waited until we put up our best bird up in the air and hi-jacked it to an airport. How in the hell can we have a system this important hacked? Read the whole article linked above.
Lets assume this is correct, Iran is a huge country, how would they know it was down? Where to find it?
I think per the article above someone hacked the system and we were too stupid to change our system. I think the Russians waited until we put up our best bird up in the air and hi-jacked it to an airport. How in the hell can we have a system this important hacked? Read the whole article linked above.
sorry friday double post.
They’re not stupid. Obama’s smart enough to know to lie domestically and tell the truth internationally.
So we're being defended by the world's deadliest bureaucracy. Great.
Perhaps this drone was allowed to be “captured”, lol. Let your imaginations run wild...
Release a f’d up copy and let them waste their time for the next two plus years reverse engineering a piece of sh*t.
It would be highly unwise to deliver any sort of a flying machine to Iranians. It may be not exactly the right thing, but if it flies it's a threat already. In any case Iran loses nothing, and the USA gains nothing.
It's also trivial to check the effective reflecting surface of this stealth drone. Just mount it on a tower and try to see it with a couple of radars, ground- and air-based. If they see it, it's a fake. If they don't you know that you got the real thing.
When they try to apply what they reverse engineer out of it into home grown copies and they start feeding intel to the US
That simply won't happen. Besides, what intel would you get if an Iranian drone flies over Israel? Compare to the level of intel Iranians get out of the same imagery, out of the same mission.
Who knows what little malware goodies have been planted into the thing
The code will be reverse engineered and sanitized. More likely it will be rewritten using the reverse engineered code as a loose guidance. If they are smart they will use two teams to prevent inadvertent copying of malware into the final product. Besides, the algorithms of control are not that complicated; it's largely a well developed math that you solve in real time. An autopilot is a common thing today. If Iran can launch rockets they know what it is because a rocket is unstable by definition and must be actively controlled all the time. An airplane is generally stable (outside of a few stealth models, perhaps like this one.)
If the drone is real, though, if I were Iran I would build it as a manned airplane, somewhat larger. As long as the reflectivity remains low (which is super-easy to check) Iran immediately gets a new line of stealth airplanes using Iranian engines and controls. They don't really need a stealthy robot plane. They'd be happy with a manned stealthy plane. Drones often require complex communications, satellites, ground-based relays, air-based relays, whatever. The USA has them; Iran doesn't. A drone of this type would be of limited use to Iran anyway. But they could find plenty of pilots.
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.
Easy to scale up the drone to full size.
Okay, so how then, Einstein?
Perhaps the drone had small self-destruct mechanisms for most secret pieces. But it clearly had no self-destruct for the entire airplane, for whatever reason. I can think of safety of maintenance and operation as one such reason; it becoming a bomb as another reason. It's one thing to fly an unarmed drone over Iran, and a somewhat different thing to fly a drone with explosives. Casus Belli and all that...
Or we can not program a cruise missle to find and destroy this before they can reverse engineer it?
Cruise missiles are not hounds. They don't fly around and find things. They need to be told in no uncertain terms where to go and what to hit. In this case nobody knows where the drone is stored. Perhaps by now it's even hard to tell because one wing is in Bejing, another is in Moscow, and the rest is being carefully taken apart, with seven video cameras taping everything, on lower floors of one of Iranian subterranean nuclear installations that can't be taken out with a megaton nuke.
I realize we are quite as adept as Hollywood reality but surely we have better contingency plans than this?
As for cruise missle, I realize they need programed and have vivid mapping to follow terrain, but we know where they will reverse engineer this thing, time to take it out as we follow it to its location, our spy satellites can certain provide that information.
I read on a military channel they think it ran out of fuel!
Please would you possible believe that an American Muslim Air Force member would commit such a traitorous act?
That’s like saying the Fort Hood Massacre was not workplace violence.
How dare you malign American Muslims sir!!!
SARC ALERT OFF NOW!
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