LOL

http://www.chimericawar.org/latest_news/2011/12/Update___RQ_170_Beast_of_Khandahar

And seriously... I don't get it why some are worried if Iran has "captured" a drone. Anti-radar technology isn't super-secret at all.

1. Deflect radar waves through curved surfaces.
2. Minimize heat output for infrared stealth.
3. Minimize mass (confuse radar signature)
4. Wave absorption paint
5. Con-trailing aluminum particles.
6. Jamming.
7. etc...

No reverse engineering needed. Give me 10 million $ and I produce a drone. ;-)

edit: added link.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2011 09:00AM by Skyphire.

The real drone:



Quite a difference!




Come to think about it, it would be a very clever subversion and co-intel technique to crash a fake drone, so that Iran reverse engineers a decade old drone with electronics that contain intentional flaws. U.S. Intel has done this before with cryptographic cyphers, on purpose building in weaknesses and bugs into algorithms and mechanical flaws into physical systems, and then let the enemy find it to reverse engineer.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2011 09:40AM by Skyphire.

paper mache drone is gonna get you.

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Modern day Trojan Horse? (outside of computers of course)

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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.";
labs : [www.businessinfo.co.uk]
blog : [www.thespanner.co.uk]
Hackvertor : [hackvertor.co.uk]

Obviously, if the US lost a drone to Iran, they haven't watched Mission: Impossible.. you always have an 'auto-destruct' mechanism in important technology.. guess they forgot that step this time around.

--thrill

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It is not the degrees you hold, but the mind you possess. - thrill

When I visited the website with the pictures, I found this:

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