.. the one in Iran.
If it's supposed to be so high-tech and stealthy, why did they paint it bright yellow?
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So - this captured US drone..
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Easier to hide in custard.
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*US officer madly jabbing self destruct button to no effect*
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and how do you catch a drone? A f*** off big butterfly net?
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Probably to do with the materials used in its construction. don't want to interfere with the RAM (radar attenuating materials). Would also hazard a guess it's grey but under sodium lighting in a hanger somewhere.
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its cool iran can use it to build their own stealth bomber and drop nukes on everyone
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I dont think its a real one.
Although they could have done a swapPosted 5 months ago # -
Where's the real one ?
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ویژه// یک منبع آگاه نظامی ایران از درخواست مقامات نظامی چین و روسیه برای بازدید کارشناسان این کشورها از هواپیمای جاسوسی بسیار پیشرفته آمریکا که توسط سپاه پاسداران سرنگون شده است، خبر دادسخنگوی سازمان مجاهدین خلق (منافقین) ضمن اعلام رسمی خروج اعضای این گروهک تروریستی از پادگان اشرف در 'آیندهای نزدیک'، خواستار مهلت چند ماهه از دولت عراق برای خروج از خاک این کشور شدرئیسجمهور قانون 'کاهش رابطه با رژیم سلطنتی انگلیس' را برای اجرا به وزارت امور خارجه ابلاغ کرد/ وزارت امور خارجه موظف شد گزارشی در مورد کشورهایی که رفتار مشابه انگلیس داشته باشند، برای اخذ تصمیم مناسب به مجلس تقدیم کند'هونگ لی'،سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه چین ضمن اعلام مخالفت با تحریم نفتی ایران تأکید کرد؛ پکن به ائتلاف آمریکا و متحدانش علیه ایران نمیپیونددیک منبع آگاه با اشاره به کنارهگیری اسفندیار رحیم مشایی از برخی مناصب دولتی به خبرنگار «نسیم» گفت: این کنارهگیری جنبه سیاسی ندارد و بیماری حاد قند آقای مشایی و توصیه پزشکان به وی برای دوری از مشاغل اجرائی علت این کنارهگیری استدو مقام ایالات متحده ضمن تایید دستیابی نیروهای ایرانی به هواپیمای بدون سرنشین آمریکایی اعلام کردند؛ این هواپیما در مسیر ماموریت برای سازمان
Stupid white people can't see it's made of styrofoam. Oh how we laugh and stroke out beards at silly nincompoops
Taken from Nasimonline.com
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Dunno but it stinks of cue to invade to get their ball back
http://theamericanaudacity.blogspot.com/2011/05/nazi-germany-horten-ho-229-gotha-vs-us.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Poor mamhoud wanted the aboveHe's Gutted to find out the sticker kit is missing
Posted 5 months ago # -
That looks nothing like a drone
more of a miniaturised B1!!!
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Must resist pedantic geekery but can't...
You mean miniaturised B2
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they never saw it coming
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That looks nothing like a drone
I can see someone getting the sack over that.
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Because people on the ground would never see it from that side? If a plane were above it and looking down on it maybe it blends in better in this colour?
Edit: Hmm, just seen it's yellow all over, that's my idea out the window.Posted 5 months ago # -
These aren't the drones you're looking for.
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If a plane were above it and looking down on it maybe it blends in better in this colour?
Yellow for Iranian desert sand innit ?
How high do they fly btw ?
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Me? I'd build some self-destruct mechanism into my drones. It loses contact with mother..... BOOM. Bet the Americans did too.
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How high do they fly btw ?
Operating ceiling of around 50,000ft.
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ernie_lynch - Member
If a plane were above it and looking down on it maybe it blends in better in this colour?
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Operating ceiling of around 50,000ft.
Posted 5 months ago # -
So easily spotted by a plane patrolling at 50,000 plus feet then. Unless they paint them yellow of course.
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Only if they're not flying in custard.
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It would be pretty impressive and majorly embarrassing for the US if, from what it said on the BBC, that the Iranians managed to take over and land the drone. It does appear, from what we can see, fairly undamaged.
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I suspect the only thing the Iranian Airforce have that would operate over 50,000ft would be those F-14 the yanks sold them years ago :irony:
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Don't trifle with the US.
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I'm discustard with that crikey.
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I suspect the only thing the Iranian Airforce have that would operate over 50,000ft would be those F-14 the yanks sold them years ago :irony:
Or the Mig-29s the Russians sold them...
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ernie_lynch - Member
That looks nothing like a drone
I can see someone getting the sack over that.
That's a bit like saying that there was "hell on*" after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand!
*Hell on might be a Sunderland phrase, if it is, it mean's quite a bit of bother.
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vinnyeh - Member
I'm discustard with that crikey.
It looks like it's a desserter
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An actual RQ-170 in Kandahar.
The colour really does look odd. UAV's are, like all US combat jets, painted in Air Superiority Grey, because it's a low contrast colour that blends well with haze and cloud. There's no need to use any kind of camo colour. We painted our jets pink during the first Gulf war, because they were flying low level missions, and pink is the best colour against sand.
That RQ-170 looks a bit fishy, the wings are taped on, and there's a wierd mesh across the jet intake, plus there are no visible markings. The yanks aircraft all have national markings in a darker shade of grey, like ours do, and other nations using AS Grey, Canadians for example.
They might have been better off flying these:
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It's obviously a fake. Sentinel drones look like this.
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Oooops
I was obviously wrong....on both counts.
I was right a plane geek in my teens...
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A british spy plane (sometime ago).
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Me? I'd build some self-destruct mechanism into my drones. It loses contact with mother..... BOOM. Bet the Americans did too.
you missed out .... and then outsource it to the lowest bidder and wonder why it doesn't work
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Self destruct is a nice plan, but what happens if you find a way to interrupt comms via satellite (dazzling it perhaps)? You'd then have a lot of hardware thinking it had lost contact and self destructing...
Also, _if_ it was hacked, it hadn't lost comms with mother. It just had a new mother.
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