Iran shoots down US spy plane

mattseh said:
US Military hardware is far from invincible. Also, most drones are designed to be expendable, so stealth isn't a high priority. Sats exist, sure, but can view a limited number of targets of interest at once.

LotsOfZeros is right, Iran is good at propaganda. See: PressTV
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the serbs downed a stealth bomber using Russian AA.. allegedly. But it's not really confirmed whether this was an accident, or wheter a single nullet migtht have managed to get a lucky shot or whether indeed it was AA.

The stealth bomber isn't entirely invisible to radar, but where other aircraft will give off a really obvious fingerprint that it's an aircraft, the stealth bomber might give off a pixel or two, so conventional radar cannot tell whther it's an aircraft or a bird or whatever.

It is possible though to use both visual and radar technology as a combined effort in order to track stealth. but this hasn't really been test much. The stealth bomber hasn't been used against a modern military in a long time.
 


liesnillusions said:
Yeah but, world war three.


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it makes a lot of sense now that iran is taking sides with syria, it wasn't all to clear why until i saw this.

Iran = hardline islamist
syria = hardline secular.
 
Probably gathered a good amount of intel on how fast Iran is able to respond to an air incursion.

Hopefully was the drone stuffed with components and software that seem genuine enough, but are easily compromised when the thing is inevitably sold to the Chinese and copied by them.

All and all, a pretty successful operation.
 
Well here we are folks, on the verge of WW3 and the only hope to stop it is Ron Paul (if he can get in office in time), well see how this movie plays out.
 
BlokBlok said:
Well here we are folks, on the verge of WW3 and the only hope to stop it is Ron Paul (if he can get in office in time), well see how this movie plays out.
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Only RP way gets into office is if sells out. Ain't happening.

Fucker could beat Obama if the race was measured in ideals alone.

Not to say the RP doesn't have some whacked out views on certain things.


THE GAME IS RIGGED.
 
Check strategypage.com for good technical articles on Iran's military capabiilty. Much unintended hilarity.

Having said that, you don't need much hi-tech capability to shoot down drone or really any aircraft that flies over your airspace. Google "golden bbs Vietnam" for results on how NVA/Vietcong could shoot down B-52s with Ak-47s.

WW3? Why would the US go to the bother of squashing Iran like a bug? They have Israel to do that if necessary. But not even Israel wants to get involved in something that messy. Not when the covert ops are going so well:
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I'm having a hard time believing Iran shot it down. I wonder if the drone had a malfunction. I'm sure Russia & China are enjoying full access to new technology.
 
Someone took down some drones in Afghanistan not too long ago, because we were running the wifis open and they didn't even have to 'hack' them. After that, the US military decided to put them on WEP encryption so now they're really safe LOL.
 
It's their right. We'd do the same.

However, this made me lol:
"Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful."
 
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