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Am going to try to get you to understand this issue which is apparently too complex for you...well f-16 can do many thing and have many system that RQ-170 don't have , one of them is an Emergency Power Unit .unless you can prove me wrong.
and please stop this BS about controlled landing in Enemy territory. That plane made a controlled landing , but the problem is that it thought it is, its mother base not somewhere in middle of nowhere in Tabas Desert and it was impossible for IRGC find it sooner than US satellites.
about UAV Glide ratio well non of them were a flying wing without any power , and better model for gliding is sort of straight wing
Summary...Air Transat 236 lost the starboard engine at 217 km out, then lost port engine at 120 km out. And this A330-200 glided to safety with only busted tires, not human lives lost. Most people find it hard to believe but large airliners actually have a better glide ratio than small general aviation aircrafts like the Cessna single prop jobbers.Thirteen minutes later, engine no. 1 also flamed out at while the aircraft was still approximately 65 nautical miles (120 km) from Lajes Air Base.
and some people still claim about crash landing or even free fall
Am going to try to get you to understand this issue which is apparently too complex for you...
First...Glide ratio...
Air Transat Flight 236 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Summary...Air Transat 236 lost the starboard engine at 217 km out, then lost port engine at 120 km out. And this A330-200 glided to safety with only busted tires, not human lives lost. Most people find it hard to believe but large airliners actually have a better glide ratio than small general aviation aircrafts like the Cessna single prop jobbers.
As for our UAV under discussion...It make eminent sense to have battery backup power in the event of engine power loss. Because our UAV is mostly wing and practically no fuselage, there will be very little drag induced like that from a common fuselage, which will give our UAV very good glide ratio. Air Transat 236 begins descent from about 40,000 ft and glided to safety. Our UAV with its flying wing design and from similar altitude can easily double or even triple that glide distance by the A330, and the RQ's operating altitude is between 40-50,000 ft.
So when I mentioned controlled landing when the UAV is in a glide because of engine power loss, it was meant to be when the aircraft is still under human control. You are confused here. Just because there is engine power loss, that does not equate to loss of human contact via data links. So if there is battery backup to power the flight control system, the ground operator can still control the aircraft to a safe landing IN FRIENDLY TERRITORY or towards said friendly territory.
I was not talking about controlled landing in Iran.
You guys were.
Christ Almighty...!!! What happened to logical thought processes...??? Joseph of Cupertino is supposedly the patron saint of pilots. He must be laughing his butt off in heaven.
Finally...How about the possibility that our UAV was genuinely lost because of technical reasons and Iran just happened to find it in the desert after a few days? For a sensitive mission like eyeballing Iran, if we never said anything about these flights, why should we say anything if one UAV was lost? And let everyone know we have been checking out Iran and possibly even violated Iranian airspace?
So if some Iranian troopers stumbled upon the crashed UAV in the desert, do you really think Iran is going to say the truth?
So far Iran did not provide a single evidence that it was not a crash. Broken wings strongly increase possibility that it was a crash.and some people still claim about crash landing or even free fall
Any conclusive proof that the purported video is genuine?
So far Iran did not provide a single evidence that it was not a crash. Broken wings strongly increase possibility that it was a crash.
So far Iran did not provide a single evidence that it was not a crash. Broken wings strongly increase possibility that it was a crash.
always bad quality pictures. somebody import some high quality digital cams to iran. maybe the plane is a dummy?
There's a hell of differences between broken wings and the wings you are seeing in the pics, which is obviously cut which was needed for transportation.