[Closed] So - this captured US drone..

Easier to hide in custard.

*US officer madly jabbing self destruct button to no effect*

and how do you catch a drone? A f*** off big butterfly net?

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.

its cool iran can use it to build their own stealth bomber and drop nukes on everyone 😉

I dont think its a real one.
Although they could have done a swap

Where's the real one ?

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[i]Stupid white people can't see it's made of styrofoam. Oh how we laugh and stroke out beards at silly nincompoops[/i]

Taken from Nasimonline.com

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

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Poor mamhoud wanted the above

He's Gutted to find out the sticker kit is missing

That looks nothing like a drone

more of a miniaturised B1!!!

Must resist pedantic geekery but can't...

You mean miniaturised B2

they never saw it coming
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That looks nothing like a drone

I can see someone getting the sack over that.

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.

These aren't the drones you're looking for.

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 ?

Me? I'd build some self-destruct mechanism into my drones. It loses contact with mother..... BOOM. Bet the Americans did too.

How high do they fly btw ?

Operating ceiling of around 50,000ft.

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.

So easily spotted by a plane patrolling at 50,000 plus feet then. Unless they paint them yellow of course.

Only if they're not flying in custard.

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.

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:

Don't trifle with the US.

I'm discustard with that crikey.

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

A british spy plane (sometime ago).

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.

The rq45 (globalhawk)is completely autonomous.These rq170 may also feature an completely autonomous system as much as, its 2nd generation and obsolete already.

Thats the second one the iranians stole this year though....

Regardless of all that; what is the US doing flying spy planes over another nation without it's permission?

Light colours, seen from below, are less visible?

Or it's just a fake.

Regardless of all that; why dont the Iranians just fly drones over the US.

Given that a border is shared between the two countries, it is possible that Iranian radio waves met the drone as it was passing _just_ on the AFG side of the border and suggested, nay! Encouraged, it to cross over voluntarily.

Just a theory...

I'm sure they are not completely autonomous either. You still need to get data back and waypoints in.

Let me guess; a raid gets launched to destroy this technology (which must not fall into the wrong hands,for the sake of world peace)and it turns out they were keeping this captured drone RIGHT next to their centrifuges and enriched uranium! Who would have thought?

This whole thing is so bonkers that you'd think it must be a hoax - but then the yanks have admitted losing one...

so
- not very stealthy
- not very secure command / control / comms 😯

"what is the US doing flying spy planes over another nation without it's permission?"

If they had their permission it wouldn't be a spy plane would it! 🙄

Regardless of all that; why dont the Iranians just fly drones over the US.

Heh! Yeah, great idea... 😀

Given that a border is shared between the two countries

Last I checked, the US and Iran don't actually share a border...

So, an act of military aggression by one state toward another.

I expect the UN will intervene, as that's their role, to keep peace...