[video=youtube;o9kPMROh48M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kPMROh48M[/video]
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The Iranian military today released video of what it claimed was the successful maiden voyage of an advanced stealth drone the Islamic nation copied from an American unmanned aircraft that crashed in Iran three years ago -- but U.S. officials are unimpressed.
The footage, broadcast on Iranian state television, shows an aircraft with a similar shape to the U.S. Air Force’s RQ-170 taking off and flying at relatively low altitude before an edited portion of the video purports to show it landing back on the runway.
Two days ago a top Iranian military commander told local reporters the drone had made a successful flight and that footage would be released shortly.
“We had promised to fly the final model of [the] RQ-170 in the second half of the current [Iranian] year and this happened,” Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said Monday, according to the Iranian news outlet Fars.
The Associated Press reported Hajizadeh taunted the U.S. further today, saying, “The mini-stroke Americans suffered will be complete by watching this footage.”
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[url]http://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-claims-video-shows-reverse-engineered-us-drone/story?id=26858830[/url]
That's actually pretty neat.
They still don't have proper nightvision/thermalvision technologies, so the drone won't be able to operate at night, which makes it worse then all US and Israel drones.
Still cool. Iran is probably one of two radical islamist country thats good at engineering (Pakistan is second I guess).
Curious about its range and altitude capabilities.
[editline]18th November 2014[/editline]
You can literally buy FLIR by mail-order catalogue, though. Surely their engineers can come up with something good.
They did this earlier
Its features suggest it's not really stealthy
It's an observation aircraft at the most, and propaganda piece (which it probably is) at the least
It is nothing to be worried about
How hasn't anyone created unmanned suicide bomber drones yet?
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;46517505]How hasn't anyone created unmanned suicide bomber drones yet?[/QUOTE]
Yep. They're called cruise missiles.
[QUOTE=Mallow234;46517500]They did this earlier
Its features suggest it's not really stealthy
It's an observation aircraft at the most, and propaganda piece (which it probably is) at the least
It is nothing to be worried about[/QUOTE]
Where are you getting your top secret information sir?
[QUOTE=archangel125;46517507]Yep. They're called cruise missiles.[/QUOTE]
Oh right
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[editline]18th November 2014[/editline]
You can literally buy FLIR by mail-order catalogue, though. Surely their engineers can come up with something good.[/QUOTE]
Higher-end FLIR is subject to the restrictions of ITAR. Unless they're going to be using a sensor with 9Hz refresh rate.
[QUOTE=laserguided;46517508]Where are you getting your top secret information sir?[/QUOTE]
Probably remembering last time their " high tech" drone turned out to be a mail order kit made of pine and balsa
Humanity 0 dark age islam 1
[QUOTE=laserguided;46517508]Where are you getting your top secret information sir?[/QUOTE]
Well I'd say he's using common sense, I'd take anything the Iranians report regarding this with a truck of salt because they've done some hilariously bad rip offs before of "US tech".
But I can see it......
[QUOTE=laserguided;46517508]Where are you getting your top secret information sir?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://medium.com/war-is-boring/did-iran-reverse-engineer-a-secret-u-s-drone-ed9dd24dffa8[/url]
It's not really top secret when they show it to the world
And also Iran likes to create [URL="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/i-built-my-own-copy-of-irans-faux-stealth-fighter-337fd4ac7a98"]things[/URL] that are essentially propaganda pieces that would never actually fly
Did anyone else hear what sounded like a propeller?
The body of the drone is not the important part, though. The optics payload is, by far, the most expensive and advanced aspect of these drones. Until they manage to reverse engineer that, all they've got m is a remote control plane.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;46517505]How hasn't anyone created unmanned suicide bomber drones yet?[/QUOTE]
Like archangel said, those are just missiles. Plus its cheaper to just strap bombs to a person.
Not saying it is, but the only time the aircraft is close to the camera is during the liftoff, which is cut very sporadically and, in my somewhat trained eye, looks CGish, or at the very least weird, almost like the tracking of the footage was off.
The rest of the footage is just a black triangle far and blurry in the sky. The landing lasts like less than a second.
Again, not saying its fake, but they did everything they could to make faking it as easy as possible...
[video=youtube;4oRZT3ethac]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oRZT3ethac[/video]
btw this is nothing but a fancy rc plane
[QUOTE=Mallow234;46518842][url]https://medium.com/war-is-boring/did-iran-reverse-engineer-a-secret-u-s-drone-ed9dd24dffa8[/url]
It's not really top secret when they show it to the world
And also Iran likes to create [URL="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/i-built-my-own-copy-of-irans-faux-stealth-fighter-337fd4ac7a98"]things[/URL] that are essentially propaganda pieces that would never actually fly[/QUOTE]
It's great how he didn't answer you :v:
now I want to see North Korea re-create some american piece of military tech and see what they mash together
Is drone stealth technology even a big deal? I figured those things would already have miniscule radar cross section just by virtue of being really small, especially if the propeller or turbine blades are hidden somewhere inside the body of the plane.
[editline]18th November 2014[/editline]
Wow scratch that this drone is fucking enormous
it's wing span is twice that of an F-16
[QUOTE=Shogoll;46519935]Wow scratch that this drone is fucking enormous
it's wing span is twice that of an F-16[/QUOTE]
Good point on the size.
Now go back to the video, rewind and pause the first 2-4 sec a few times. That look like a 65ft wingspan aircraft that's taller than the cameraman filming it?
What Iran has done is built a fibreglass mockup to sit next to the original ("hey look, we built another one"), and then made a 1/2 or 1/3 scale remote control model for the flight video. Which they probably crashed on landing too, seeing as the video cuts out there :v:
Someone enlighten me in how this would be stealthy, it's really noise though
[QUOTE=Kingbob387;46520888]Someone enlighten me in how this would be stealthy, it's really noise though[/QUOTE]
Yeah must be quiet and invisible.
It would be stealthy for radars obviously.
I can't believe it has been 3years since that drone crash..
[QUOTE=Fuxed;46517634]Higher-end FLIR is subject to the restrictions of ITAR. Unless they're going to be using a sensor with 9Hz refresh rate.[/QUOTE]Whew, good thing [i]smuggling[/i] isn't an option for the Iranians. We'd be totally fucked if some random guy can buy FLIR optics and ship them directly to his house, then immediately passes them off to somebody who moves illegal shit in and out of the country as his day job. :l
[editline]19th November 2014[/editline]
The hard part about reverse-engineering IR or NV tubes isn't getting a working example. Fuck, that's the easiest part, what's [i]really[/i] difficult is reverse-engineering the unbelievably difficult manufacture process. You can't just whip together a Gen III NV tube in your fucking garage, (I tried, it's basically sorcery) which is easier than the five-thousand-a-pop FLIR systems you can buy.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;46528976]Whew, good thing [i]smuggling[/i] isn't an option for the Iranians. We'd be totally fucked if some random guy can buy FLIR optics and ship them directly to his house, then immediately passes them off to somebody who moves illegal shit in and out of the country as his day job. :l
[editline]19th November 2014[/editline]
The hard part about reverse-engineering IR or NV tubes isn't getting a working example. Fuck, that's the easiest part, what's [i]really[/i] difficult is reverse-engineering the unbelievably difficult manufacture process. You can't just whip together a Gen III NV tube in your fucking garage, (I tried, it's basically sorcery) which is easier than the five-thousand-a-pop FLIR systems you can buy.[/QUOTE]
I want to know how your attempt went. Do you have a blog post about it or something? I would read the shit out of it
[QUOTE=Kingbob387;46520888]Someone enlighten me in how this would be stealthy, it's really noise though[/QUOTE]
maybe those really loud jet noises aren't real
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