is it just me, or does that drone look fake as shit?

i was thinking that was the whole point.

Well, the Iranian authorities aren't exactly a reputable source of information. That said - and this is quite likely a red herring - there is the incident of the U.S. drone fleet getting infected with some form of malware a while back:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/

>> ^EMPIRE:

is it just me, or does that drone look fake as shit?


I felt that way too, but looks can sometimes be deceiving. I'm torn; I'd like to laugh at Iran trying to be all super-powery, but the day they drop a nuke on Israel and start WW3 I will not feel like laughing.

First Prize for Butter Sculpture at the Minnesota State Fair.

>> ^hpqp:

>> ^EMPIRE:
is it just me, or does that drone look fake as shit?

I felt that way too, but looks can sometimes be deceiving. I'm torn; I'd like to laugh at Iran trying to be all super-powery, but the day they drop a nuke on Israel and start WW3 I will not feel like laughing.


oh, the Iranian government is a threat alright. No doubt about it, but they are also terrible liars of a Comical Ali level.

They must have Jeff Goldblum writing viruses for them on his 1996 macintosh.

>> ^notarobot:

They must have Jeff Goldblum writing viruses for them on his 1996 macintosh.


Please. All true hackers are using jailbroken iPhone 4S now.

More like US flew and landed the drone in Iran so they have some bullshit excuse to start another retarded war that benefits the military contractors.

If we have another bullshit war I think I might move out of the uk and go to a neutral country Such a load of shit what UK and USA have and are doing internationally.

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?

>> ^grinter:

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?


I would take a wild guess that those things are designed to go kaboom if there is even the slightest hint of malfunction (malfunction meaning ANY undesired event). The interesting part was the fact that the CIA lead on that perhaps that exact sequence of events didn't quite occur correctly maybe.

Also yes, that is a fake airplane... The drones are MUCH bigger than that piece of crap, paper-mâché high school project. For example this is a bomber drone that is brand new, it's 65 to a possible 90 feet across (BTW, in the video you can see that they label it as the RQ-170, which is what I linked to)... Like I said it's a bomber, it needs to be pretty big. So unless the CIA has a stealth version that is 3/4 the size of the bomber, they are full of crap. I think what the CIA was worried about is maybe that the entirety of the drone wasn't destroyed leaving possible tidbits behind like it's stealth mesh and other composites to be reverse engineered--I think TDS had a bit on this a few days ago.

-Second Part
I did look around some more and there are some US officials taking this very seriously, so maybe they do in fact have their 45~ft drone. If you read at the bottom of the RQ-170 on Wikipedia (I linked it above), it has been updated with much more current information. So it may indeed be a small coup for the Iranian Military indirectly, as it seems to be a navigational flight error. Which asks the question: where the hell is it's self-destruction switch; are they really that stupid?