Iranians shoot down US drone?

[Jimbeaux]

Mr Sparkle said:

I wonder if they considered blowing it up where it landed.

Maybe after it is inside being examined.

[pacman1]

Jimbeaux said:

Mr Sparkle said:

I wonder if they considered blowing it up where it landed.

Maybe after it is inside being examined.

Yeah right. I thought these things would carry demolition charges for situations such as this. Wonder why they weren't triggered..

We're jammin'. Jammin' in the name of the Lord.

Edited by pacman1 on Thursday 8th December 19:08

[Mr_B]

The shield not showing the underside would suggest they didn't get control or enough control the get the gear down for a landing ?
Really quite intriguing, lets hope the septics dont have a sense of humour and do tell all.

[petemurphy]

amazing looking thing have you seen the window close up - i imagine a threatening red light to come from inside

[jbi]

it will be comparable to drones already developed/ under development in China, Russia and Iran. Obviously they wont pass the opportunity to have a good poke about, but it is not going to advance anything in their arsenal considerably.

[jbi]

petemurphy said:

amazing looking thing have you seen the window close up - i imagine a threatening red light to come from inside

you are probably thinking of the British stealth drone "taranis" mock ups

[TheHeretic]

He's talking about the metal grate window on the video posted.

[jbi]

TheHeretic said:

He's talking about the metal grate window on the video posted.

I know... and it reminded me of these mock ups from last year. Perhaps he has seen them.

[V8A*ndy]

China will be all over this.....


Remember that Pilot "Wang Wei", who went the wong way whilst buzzing a carrier based EP-3 forcing it to land in China (an island I think).

The feckers had that thing striped in 20 mins.

They will want to get there before Russia and will probably pay Iran a small fortune to take it off their hands.

Iran are doing rather well. That's two rubber boats and a drone so far

Edited by V8A*ndy on Thursday 8th December 19:36

[jmorgan]

Looks more like a mock up knocked up.

[xe mini]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b76_1323369288

Certainly beats our top end stuff.

http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aircraft/1535.asp...

Edited by xe mini on Thursday 8th December 20:09

[pacman1]

xe mini said:

Certainly beats our top end stuff.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aircraft/1535.asp...

Good grief.

[TheHeretic]

pacman1 said:

xe mini said:

Certainly beats our top end stuff.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aircraft/1535.asp...

Good grief.

If it does the job... It's certain;ly a small target, and if it gives intel, what is the issue?

[pacman1]

TheHeretic said:

pacman1 said:

xe mini said:

Certainly beats our top end stuff.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aircraft/1535.asp...

Good grief.

If it does the job... It's certainly a small target, and if it gives intel, what is the issue?

Yes, I fully understand that. It was the whole piece that got me really, compared to the US approach to this sort of warfare, it seemed a tad low tech. Having said that, in view of the current US drone loss it looks pretty cost effective. But as the soldier said, [sic] a toy plane controlled with an x-box console.

[strudel]

jmorgan said:

Looks more like a mock up knocked up.

I'm with you! Looks like fibreglass.

[Sam the Mut]

strudel said:

jmorgan said:

Looks more like a mock up knocked up.

I'm with you! Looks like fibreglass.

+1

[ben_h100]

xe mini said:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b76_1323369288

Certainly beats our top end stuff.

http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/aircraft/1535.asp...

Edited by xe mini on Thursday 8th December 20:09

That isn't our top end stuff...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/reaper.cfm

[Pesty]

jmorgan said:

Looks more like a mock up knocked up.

thats what i thought. didnt look right.


plus shot down and crashed? it looked in remarably good shape

[jbi]

Pesty said:

plus shot down and crashed? it looked in remarably good shape

that's the point... it wasn't shot down

Iranians claim "cyber warfare/ signal intercept and block"

American claim drone malfunction

Either way it landed smoothly and safely

[Ordinary_Chap]

Pesty said:

jmorgan said:

Looks more like a mock up knocked up.

thats what i thought. didnt look right.


plus shot down and crashed? it looked in remarably good shape

The report says the craft will attempt to land itself if it needs too and that would be my guess as to what happened.