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Top secret US spy drone captured by Iran
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It is possible for them to return to base, though I don't know if this would work without a gps signal. I guess that they could use other technology, even using a primitive compass might work.
Soldato
According to an entry on Wiki, it's reasonable to think the drone was hacked and landed.
It wasn't that, it was down to driver support...
...and I thought AMD had pulled their socks up with regard to Linux.
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So was it over iran or just near their border?
Either way what right do they have to steal it?
Are you being serious?
A military drone from a hostile country flying over your borders and you'd be concerned over their rights?
They have none if they do so much as violate your air space.
Soldato
Lots on info here - nothing relating to cost though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel
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probably significantly more than you or I will ever see in our lifetime.
edit: $6 million to manufacture apparently.
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What about satellites?
Man of Honour
Is this a second one? I swear they shot one down last week!
There was only one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ver-Iran-lost-over-Afghanistan-last-week.html
According to the us it lost contact and just drifted till it crashed.
they have lots of problem with losing contact with the things they had to shoot one of their own down before it left Afghani airspace recently.
I keep forgetting I'm in GD...
Satellites are not in anyone territory, if you are crazy enough to think that everything vertically above you is in your territory, does that include the whole Universe?
Exactly, so people don't own the air, it's always moving, so therefore they don't have a right to steal anything that happens to fly above their land.
Is this a second one? I swear they shot one down last week!
The article is about Iranians releasing the video of the UAV captured last week.
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It was just over the border near Afgahnisatan.
Either way what right do they have to steal it?
As much as I disagree with the ridiculous 'let them do what they want, waaaaa the west is evil, waaaaaaa i don't understand the irony of freely slagging off my government whilst supporting the Iranians from the comfort of my computer room' sentiment, whether accidently or otherwise it violated Iranian airspace so, really, there isn't much the Americans can justifiably do to whinge about it.
$6 million according to this article - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05/us-military-sources-iran-has-missing-us-drone/
why do you assume it was in iranian airspace? it was probably near the border but in afghanistan airspace you know that country america has been actie in for nearly 10 years now