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originally posted by: TritonTaranis
YAY we copied
Must be a proud moment for Iran
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: DarknStormy
They didn't land it, it crashed in the desert after the GPS was spoofed.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: DarknStormy
They didn't land it, it crashed in the desert after the GPS was spoofed.
originally posted by: Sammamishman
a reply to: stirling
The Merlin's are cool, but have you heard the RQ170? Sounds like a Star Wars Tie fighter.
Skip to 22:57 of the embedded video:
aviationintel.com...
originally posted by: boomer135
Tylor rogoways websit aviationintel.com has an excellent write up of how the RQ-170 came to be with the history of the jets we know or speculate are out there. Including what zaph says which it is a filler for its big brothers development.
originally posted by: boomer135
So they have a uav that is probably at least two generations behind what we actually have flying. And I could almost bet that the US knows how to detect these RQ-170s before they even left groom lake.
originally posted by: solidshot
originally posted by: boomer135
So they have a uav that is probably at least two generations behind what we actually have flying. And I could almost bet that the US knows how to detect these RQ-170s before they even left groom lake.
They may be a couple of generations behind? but that's still one hell of a tech jump over what they have had in the past?
originally posted by: Vovin
originally posted by: boomer135
So they have a uav that is probably at least two generations behind what we actually have flying.
Yet this is the UAV model that the USA chose to fly in Iranian airspace...