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12-08-2011, 02:01 PM
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| | You can call me Cracker
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| OH this can't be good
World News - Iran state television displays downed US drone
Now a bunch of guys in Iran (who were probably on their robotics team in High School) get to reverse engineer some of our best technology.
Goodie.
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12-08-2011, 02:04 PM
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| | Short Sided
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| And if we were sitting at home protecting our borders this wouldn't have happened. How many unintended consequences will it take for us to reverse course? | |
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12-08-2011, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by nbakerld  And if we were sitting at home protecting our borders this wouldn't have happened. How many unintended consequences will it take for us to reverse course? | Very Very true.
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12-08-2011, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by nbakerld And if we were sitting at home protecting our borders this wouldn't have happened. How many unintended consequences will it take for us to reverse course? | I don't see it happening in my lifetime. Not enough money in it for the right people. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by NEOCON | I think that if there were concerns, it would be out of there or destroyed by now. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:13 PM
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| | Veni, Vidi, Vici
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| I don't think we have to worry about Iran reverse engineering anything. They would need strong foreign help for the drone to be of any real use. The downed helicopter tail used to get OBL which was shipped to China scared me way more than this incident. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:13 PM
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| | Short Sided
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Originally Posted by VolsNSkinsFan couple of things that dont look right in the video. If you google images RQ 170, the plane doesnt have a grill covering the intake and in the video. Also the size is off, and in the video, they have a skirt hiding the landing gear. I think its a fake | We can hope | |
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12-08-2011, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by PKT_VOL I don't think we have to worry about Iran reverse engineering anything. They would need strong foreign help for the drone to be of any real use. The downed helicopter tail used to get OBL which was shipped to China scared me way more than this incident. | and you think this one won't be???
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12-08-2011, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by NEOCON and you think this one won't be??? | I think China will try... | |
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12-08-2011, 02:20 PM
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| Remember how we trained the Taliban? Remember how we armed Iraq? Those were good ideas. More of the same. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:20 PM
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| meh. We'll all be speaking Cantonese soon anyway. Sign me up. Zhang!
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12-08-2011, 02:23 PM
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| I'm fairly sure if China wanted a drone, they could build one. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:23 PM
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| | Deal with it
| It's bad, but not catastrophic. | |
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12-08-2011, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeWilly I'm fairly sure if China wanted a drone, they could build one. | It is the stealth of the drone which they would be interested in (maybe the various cameras too). | |
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