Iran Building Copy Of Captured US Drone

[Devil Soul]

Iran Says It Is Building Copy Of Captured US Drone
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian commander says the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted Sunday by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying that experts are also recovering data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran.
U.S. officials have acknowledged losing the drone. They have said Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard it because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.

 

[nomi007]

i think it will take 5 to 10 years

 

[rockstarIN]

Didn't they build one and sent it white house?

 

[Oldman1]

Didn't they build one and sent it white house?

The Serbs try to do that to, didn't work.

 

[BordoEnes]

Iran said Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove his claim that Tehran's military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, state television reported Sunday.

Tehran has flaunted the capture of the Sentinel, a top-secret surveillance drone with stealth technology, as a victory for Iran and a defeat for the United States in a complicated intelligence and technological battle.

U.S. officials have acknowledged losing the drone. They have said Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard it because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.

Hajizadeh told state television that the captured surveillance drone is a "national asset" for Iran and that he could not reveal full technical details. But he did provide some samples of the data that he claimed Iranian experts had recovered.

"This drone was in California in Oct. 2010 for some technical work and was taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan in Nov. 2010. It conducted flights there but apparently faced problems and (U.S. experts) were unable to fix it," he said.

Hajizadeh said the drone was taken to Los Angeles in Dec. 2010 where sensors of the aircraft underwent testing. He claimed that the drone was in use in Pakistan two weeks before Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in the country's northwest.

"If we had not achieved access to software and hardware of this aircraft, we would be unable to get these details. Our experts are fully dominant over sections and programs of this plane," he said.

There are concerns in the U.S. that Iran or other states may be able to reverse-engineer the chemical composition of the drone's radar-deflecting paint or the aircraft's sophisticated optics technology that allows operators to positively identify terror suspects from tens of thousands of feet in the air.

There are also worries that adversaries may be able to hack into the drone's database, as Iran claimed to have done. Some surveillance technologies allow video to stream through to operators on the ground but do not store much collected data. If they do, it is encrypted.

Media reports claimed this week that Russia and China have asked Tehran to provide them with information on the drone but Iran's Defense Ministry denied this.

Iran building copy of captured US drone - Times LIVE


And here is a clip!

 

[Black Widow]

can they ?

 

[longbrained]

That is a wonderful video. It has coded message for US intelligence community which basically says Iran is a powerful nation. They have given out enough detail for US to know that Iran has broken into the drone's systems.

 

[Cyrus the Great]

The Serbs try to do that to, didn't work.

It does not necessaryly mean Iran can not.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

i think it will take 5 to 10 years

If you read the article you will see that they already have reserve engineered it.
5-10 years my ***.

 

[Harry_Thomason]

If you read the article you will see that they already have reserve engineered it.
5-10 years my ***.

To be fair, reserve engineering just means they know how drone and its systems works, but to be able to replicate the technology and materials may take some time. For example, even if Iran would get F-22 blueprints today, they wouldnt be able to build the fighter for quite some time.

In any case, its great Iran completely cracked the drone, and will be able to use some of the gained knowledge right away on their own drones. I dont expect exact copy of RQ-170 in the near future though.

P.S. I do remember how Americans were claiming Iran wont be able to crack the drone security, what they'll say now?

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

To be fair, reserve engineering just means they know how drone and its systems works, but to be able to replicate the technology and materials may take some time. For example, even if Iran would get F-22 blueprints today, they wouldnt be able to build the fighter for quite some time.

In any case, its great Iran completely cracked the drone, and will be able to use some of the gained knowledge right away on their own drones. I dont expect exact copy of RQ-170 in the near future though.



P.S. I do remember how Americans were claiming Iran wont be able to crack the drone security, what they'll say now?

Well I dont even why they would even make it. it need geo satellite for it navigation something which Iran does not have.
we just need to learn about it's sensors and so on.

 

[R0H1T]

To be fair, reserve engineering just means they know how drone and its systems works, but to be able to replicate the technology and materials may take some time. For example, even if Iran would get F-22 blueprints today, they wouldnt be able to build the fighter for quite some time.

In any case, its great Iran completely cracked the drone, and will be able to use some of the gained knowledge right away on their own drones. I dont expect exact copy of RQ-170 in the near future though.

P.S. I do remember how Americans were claiming Iran wont be able to crack the drone security, what they'll say now?

Yeah people think its as easy as Cut/Copy/Paste on a keyboard ! You need more than just the blueprints & wherewithal to pull something like that off viz experience for starters.

 

[TrMhMt]

I believe Iran can do it easily. Iranian people are very smart and they are good at engineering.

I think soon we will see new videos of it.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

I believe Iran can do it easily. Iranian people are very smart and they are good at engineering.

I think soon we will see new videos of it.

As I said it will useless for Iran to make this UAV. we need to use its technology for our things.

 

[SOHEIL]

i think it will take 5 to 10 years

what !!!