Iran: We stole all secrets from U.S. drone
An Iranian military commander claimed Monday that the country has stolen all the secrets held by a high-tech American surveillance drone that crashed in Iran last year, according to Iranian news reports.
“All the intelligence in this drone has been completely decoded and extracted and we know each and every step it has taken,” said Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Division for the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, according to an English-language report by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. …
The RQ-170 Sentinel drone, a classified unmanned surveillance craft produced by defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin, was on a CIA mission when it mysteriously crashed in Iranian territory last December, according to U.S. officials at the time.
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Heck they probably got instructions on how to decode the intelligence from the Obama Administration.
PierreLegrand on December 11, 2012 at 8:29 AM
They are going to use the drones to find the 12th Imam’s well so that they can hand him the nookalar launch keys.
CorporatePiggy on December 11, 2012 at 8:40 AM
“We got everything including the super secret name of the intelligence agency who operated the drone, code name Hasbro, which was written on the side. Now all yankee pig dogs will DIE!”
Bishop on December 11, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Maybe if we’d mind our own business and stop committing acts of war this crap wouldn’t happen.
MoreLiberty on December 11, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I am still puzzled as to why it didn’t self-destruct upon losing command control.
OldEnglish on December 11, 2012 at 8:54 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Air Hogs just announced they have declared war on Iran.
Bishop on December 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM
I don’t believe them. Furthermore why would you announce it and maybe cause future drones to have better encryption. Also, what good is the data? So they know where it went, maybe what it saw and just maybe where it left from. So they may have pretty pictures of their country and it wouldn’t be very hard to figure out where it came from anyway. I’m not seeing how any of this type of info is of any real value to them unless they don’t know where there instillation are in their own country. As far as they know where we are looking. Big deal. We already have sat pictures that map out every inch of their country and I doubt we had to wait for the drone to come back before we had what it saw.
Frank Enstine on December 11, 2012 at 9:20 AM
RINOs are people too on December 11, 2012 at 9:23 AM
When one nation uses aircraft to violate the sovereign borders of another that is an act of war. If China had drones in our airspace that would be an act of war.
MoreLiberty on December 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM
How can this be? President Obama asked nicely for them to return it, so why do they still have it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16150384
JeremiahJohnson on December 11, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Exactly. We should not have committed an act of war if we’re still too chicken to follow through on said act, which we are.
MelonCollie on December 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM
But we like to watch.
Don’t worry, we proved at Benghazi that we understand ‘Look, but don’t touch’.
Hillary calls this the Pole Dancer Doctrine.
CorporatePiggy on December 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Pro Tip: When you comment – make a point.
blink on December 11, 2012 at 10:27 AM
He did make a point: when a country supplies shaped charges for IEDs to insurgents our troops are fighting in Iraq, it’s an act of war.
Oh, wait, maybe he didn’t realise he was making that point, but I’d be happy to shove it down his whiny throat on behalf of all the US troops who were injured or killed by Iranian bombs in Iraq…
Wanderlust on December 11, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Never, EVER, use the words “Hillary” and “Pole Dancer” in the same sentence again.
CurtZHP on December 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM