US Officials confirm iran has captured intact drone
 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...est=latestnews

A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran.
"Yep, that's it," the official told Fox News. "And it's intact."
U.S. officials had been expecting the video to appear. The footage, which shows the aircraft intact, confirms the Iranians have custody of the drone but appears to refute Iranian claims that it shot down the RQ-170 drone.
With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President Obama was presented with three separate options for retrieving or destroying the drone. The president ultimately decided not to proceed with any of the plans because it could have been seen as an act of war, the official told Fox News.
Among the options the U.S. considered were sending in a special-ops team to retrieve the drone; sending in a team to blow up the aircraft; and launching an airstrike to destroy it.
NATO initially said the drone may have been one that was flying a mission over western Afghanistan before operators "lost control" of it. Officials have since acknowledged that the drone was part of a joint CIA-military reconnaissance mission.
One official told Fox News on Thursday that the incident is a huge loss and makes the top-secret helicopter tail lost during the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan "look like a pittance." The official said there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese, in addition to using it themselves.

You'd think the techs would have put a "self destruct" module as a part of the drone. Nothing too dangerous, but at least some safeguard that could safeguard decryption, deconstruction, etc.

I suspect they do have a destruct device on them...and I suspect...for whatever their reasons...they wanted this drone placed in the hands of the Iranians.

big fail.

" before operators "lost control" of it"?! Great stuff! Thx for posting.

makes sense for sure

Basic F15's from the 80's have such devices, so I would think such a top secret aircraft would have one.

They are waiting for the
right time to detonate it

http://i.imgur.com/oX2rb.gif

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Pakistan is an ally by convenience and by our force. We have had control over them for over 10 years.

Iran is quite a bit different.

If it was a mistake that this was captured like that it means another seal team will be going in.

And yet they didn't blow it up so your whole argument about how they want to start a war means nothing.

Yes they didn't use that reason to start some shit. They actually avoided it. So your theory is incorrect.

ah ha

now we have them where we want them...they captured the top secret drone


lol

I think they put a gay porn CD on it to show the Irainian army how cool it is to bumfuck each other instead of doing warish things. ..Make love not war stuff

Yet they could start shit right away if they wanted to and they don't. Your theory is retarded.

Weird, out of all people i expected you to come up with some crazy ass conspiracy.

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Any number of things can go wrong with a mechanical device and they are aware of that...so of course they would not fly a drone that they did not want captured...without a destruct device...that could be triggered by the controllers of the drone. It is possible the destruct device failed...but I suspect this is not the case.

Every army in the world make fuck ups once in awhile and this is most prob one of those fuck ups. It wasent even meant to be over Iran in the first place if you read the article. It was supposed to be over Afganistan and if it goes out of range how are they supposed to remote blow it up ?

Wait till they open it!

needs to be actual contact with the drone for that to work

or power for that matter

The drones are still a relatively new toy, you've effectively got guys in Langley, Virgina sitting there with a joystick as if they're playing an XBox

Many of the drones flown in various places around the world are flown by controllers in the CONUS so being "out of range" is very unlikely. Of course losing a signal would follow under a destruct device failure and I have already stated that this is a possibility.

What they publically state about any military event often...if not most times...has little significance to the truth.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if they took control of it and landed it safely at one of their bases. This is probably just the first in a long list of things the bad guys will be doing in our generation.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts?

Jon Stewart said pretty much the same thing last night.

Obama is a fucking idiot

` Partner says the dumb ass co didn't order the operators to trigger the self destruct mechanisms on it. ` Would've been ceramic peices all over the desert! ` Say the boys were checkin out the nite life in natanz and isfahan. ` Aint that a bitch! `
Best hope this tech dont reach the hands of China/N.Korea and Russia! `

Was thinking Trojan horse myself.

Too bad it doesn't have a self destruct mechanism.

You mean like those clowns who killed a guy who's been dead for 10 years? May as well send Borat in, would be less embarrassing :1orglaugh

if your going to send a drone dont let it crash

Put your tinfoil hat back on.

LOL @ this thread.

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We?

You didn't do shit

nawwww, they fucked up and now trying to spin it 10 ways from centre:2 cents: