Iran Haunts US ScanEagle Drone over Persian Gulf

[Oldman1]

Fair enough, some US alies also bought them, but common sense suggests one of US divisions was spying on Iranians, I doubt Ausies or Dutch would go for it

Common sense that they can if requested by U.S. and they have lost such aircraft as well. Just like losing a British Predator drone. That mean anything?

 

[Harry_Thomason]

Common sense that they can if requested by U.S. and they have lost such aircraft as well. Just like losing a British Predator drone. That mean anything?

Theoretically everything is possible, however not all possibilities have equal probability:

1) US made drone, loads of US warships and bases in the region, extensive spying history on Iran.

2) Other ScanEagle operators have no bases (unless we count NATO bases in Afghanistan), no warships in Persian Gulf now that I'm aware off, their spying history on Iran is almost non-existent.

Which choice has more grounds? I think you'll agree, first is by far. Therefore until proven otherwise, I'm pretty sure it was a US spying mission.

 

[Esc8781]

What about the UAE?

 

[Slav Defence]

new caricaturs published

rq170,hum slowly jadeed daari,askan eagle hum omad vid-dillat!
tawhum dastageeri shaddi eagle?
ya seestum ma taateela ;ya irni ha ind taqsas!
what is its translation in english....sounds like another blast

 

[kollang]

rq170,hum slowly jadeed daari,askan eagle hum omad vid-dillat!
tawhum dastageeri shaddi eagle?
ya seestum ma taateela ;ya irni ha ind taqsas!
what is its translation in english....sounds like another blast

RQ-170!?ham selluliye jadid daari ScanEagle ham umad vare delet!
to ham dastgir shodi eagle?ya systeme ma tatile ya Irani ha ende takhassosan!
in English:RQ-170!here comes the new roommate.scaneagle is came to you.
you got arrested too scaneagle?our systems are crap or Iranians are professional and smart

 

[Slav Defence]

RQ-170!?ham selluliye jadid daari ScanEagle ham umad vare delet!
to ham dastgir shodi eagle?ya systeme ma tatile ya Irani ha ende takhassosan!
in English:RQ-170!here comes the new roommate.scaneagle is came to you.
you got arrested too scaneagle?our systems are crap or Iranians are professional and smart

haahahahhaa.........beautiful,i like the confidence of people of iran and the upper one??''e... whyee...dobraa me khwan yakee az marooo buffer satm simt iran???

 

[raptor22]

Theoretically everything is possible, however not all possibilities have equal probability:

1) US made drone, loads of US warships and bases in the region, extensive spying history on Iran.

2) Other ScanEagle operators have no bases (unless we count NATO bases in Afghanistan), no warships in Persian Gulf now that I'm aware off, their spying history on Iran is almost non-existent.

Which choice has more grounds? I think you'll agree, first is by far. Therefore until proven otherwise, I'm pretty sure it was a US spying mission.

The point is Iran gets all of them intact ... As you know Iran isn't a small tiny country and it makes detecting flying objects a little bit hard therefore waiting somewhere to hunt a drone seems preposterous , meanwhile why such a crashes don't occur in the other countries ? Pakistan ? Somalia and so forth ... besides last month Iran detected an American drone ,which was spying on our territory , and an Iranian Su-25 fighter ( an old Soviet ground attack fighter) opened fire on it the fighter missed, mainly because he was shooting at it with a huge 30mm ground-attack cannon . it shows how Iran is alert and cares about its sovereignty .

 

[SOHEIL]

Iran dont have Israeli made UAV

true if you say ...

 

[doublemaster]

If iran can capture...then i think they can goto pak afgan border and make some predator drones to land in iran

 

[notsuperstitious]

Part of campaign - In today's world if you keep repeating lie than it becomes truth

Today's world? Religions have repeated fairytales for millenia and sold them as absolute truth. Happy realisation.

 

[SOHEIL]

If iran can capture...then i think they can goto pak afgan border and make some predator drones to land in iran

this is out of our prestige ...

 

[Sugarcane]

Today's world? Religions have repeated fairytales for millenia and sold them as absolute truth. Happy realisation.

Oo Konway kay mendak - Sometime try to look outside of your religious hate cabin. change in weather is good for lungs

 

[notsuperstitious]

Oo Konway kay mendak - Sometime try to look outside of your religious hate cabin. change in weather is good for lungs

LOL, yes I must be the konway ka mendak because I loved the flying angels stories at age 3 but outgrew them with education

The Jew hate cabin, that must be mine too.

 

[Slav Defence]

The point is Iran gets all of them intact ... As you know Iran isn't a small tiny country and it makes detecting flying objects a little bit hard therefore waiting somewhere to hunt a drone seems preposterous , meanwhile why such a crashes don't occur in the other countries ? Pakistan ? Somalia and so forth ... besides last month Iran detected an American drone ,which was spying on our territory , and an Iranian Su-25 fighter ( an old Soviet ground attack fighter) opened fire on it the fighter missed, mainly because he was shooting at it with a huge 30mm ground-attack cannon . it shows how Iran is alert and cares about its sovereignty .

And why shouldnt Iran???its her right!you have no idea how smart decision Iran had made...to stay away from usa-alqaida war........i think now U.S.A. wishes to leave Afghanistan and she wants Pakistan to engage a war with Afghanistan....afghanistan fights with PAKISTAN and result???Iran Iraq war......Musharaf knew very well that U.S.A want to turn him into another saddam,but musharraf was smart.....thats why a/c to U.S.A. media complained that he double crossed U.S.A
thats why i say to you brothers,Ahmadi NIJAD is a jewel.
So keep targeting their drones,brother because you are committed to them in war thing,

 

[SOHEIL]

ScanEagle is a descendant of another Insitu UAV, SeaScan, which was conceived of as a remote sensor for collecting weather data as well as helping commercial fishermen locate and track schools of tuna. ScanEagle emerged as the result of a strategic alliance between Boeing and Insitu. The resulting technology has been successful as a portable Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for autonomous surveillance in the battlefield, and has been deployed since August 2004 in the Iraq War.

ScanEagle carries a stabilized electro-optical and/or infrared camera on a light-weight inertial stabilized turret system integrated with communications range over 100 km, and flight endurance of 20+ hours. ScanEagle has a 10-foot (3 m) wingspan and can fly up to 75 knots (139 km/h), with an average cruising speed of 60 knots (111 km/h). Block D aircraft featured a higher resolution camera, a custom-designed Mode C transponder and a new video system. A Block D aircraft, flying at Boeing's test range in Boardman, Oregon set a type endurance record of 22 hours, 8 minutes.



Sea-borne launch from a Mark V Special Operations Craft
ScanEagle needs no airfield for deployment. Instead, it is launched using a pneumatic launcher, patented by Insitu, known as the "SuperWedge" launcher. It is recovered using the "Skyhook" retrieval system, which uses a hook on the end of the wingtip to catch a rope hanging from a 30 to 50-foot (15 m) pole. This is made possible by a high-quality differential GPS units mounted on the top of the pole and UAV. The rope is attached to a shock cord to reduce stress on the airframe imposed by the abrupt stop.

Each ScanEagle system costs US$3.2 million (2006). A complete system comprises four air vehicles or AVs, a ground control station, remote video terminal, and the Skyhook launch and recovery system.