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Plucketeer

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3. It's truly AMAZING to me

Reply to KurtNYC (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:38 PM

Feb 2013

that the Iranians managed to "capture" one of these drones in the first place! Once this thing was hijacked it should have automatically self-destructed. It should have ended it's time with the Iranians scouring many square miles of Iran for the tiny bits of aftermath from an internal explosive device.

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Iran claims released footage is from downed U.S. drone [View all] KurtNYC Feb 2013 OP

Well...that didn't pan out. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #1

"We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said later that month. R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2013 #4

Yeah...that would have been a situation for a bland non-statement. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #6

Is this it? bananas Feb 2013 #2

It's truly AMAZING to me Plucketeer Feb 2013 #3

If the Iranians can grab one then perhaps R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2013 #5

IF they were able to commandeer this drone Plucketeer Feb 2013 #12

I doubt they hijacked it hack89 Feb 2013 #7

Then it STILL should have had Plucketeer Feb 2013 #11

Considering we have no detailed pictures of the real thing hack89 Feb 2013 #13

IIRC Plucketeer Feb 2013 #15

My point is we have no way of determining if they actually reconstructed it. nt hack89 Feb 2013 #16

I understood what you were comveying Plucketeer Feb 2013 #19

In December of 2011, the U.S. admitted that Iran had one and we asked for it back KurtNYC Feb 2013 #17

I know one crashed and that they have the wreckage hack89 Feb 2013 #18

We would have barbecued W for this. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #8

It's painfully obvious that footage is fake. Archae Feb 2013 #9

No, see, it's just so far advanced that it breaks from every military camera system on the planet Robb Feb 2013 #10

The drone had no business being there in the first place. It has just elevated the Game of War to libdem4life Feb 2013 #14