Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone 350
New submitter skipkent writes "Iran's military has started to build a copy of a U.S. surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported on Sunday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, said engineers were in the final stages of decoding data from the Sentinel aircraft, which came down in December near the Afghan border, Mehr news agency reported."
I for one.... (Score:0, Funny)
Welcome our new Persian Robot Overlords.
Send the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
DMCA violation? (Score:5, Funny)
If only it were the RIAA or MPAA instead of the CIA, then Iran would be in serious trouble.
Remember the scene in Iron Man 2? (Score:5, Funny)
Where Tony Stark pulls up the footage of other countries trying to duplicate his armor? Why do I have a feeling this is going to go something like that.
Re:Send the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
You're thinking way too small. We can also get Patent attorneys into the fight. Then, if we can get the whole war moved to the Eastern district of Texas, we'll have the home turf advantage.
The bastards! (Score:4, Funny)
Now I suddenly understand the strategic importance of ACTA. If they'd signed ACTA, we'd nail 'em when they tried to sell their cheap knockoffs to the Chinese, the Russians, the North-Koreans, the Pakistani, the Venezuelans, the Cubans, the Jemenites, the Hamaz guerilla's, and ... .
Re:goodluckwiththat (Score:5, Funny)
Is it just me? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:goodluckwiththat (Score:0, Funny)
Oh yes, american drones are sooo advanced its like magic to the rest of the world. In the whole of the country they won't be able to find even one person, not even one educated abroad who can work it out. No way. That drones so advanced not even the americans could keep it in the air.
Re:First! (Score:2, Funny)
Want some help with that? (Score:5, Funny)
Hi Iran, we here at the US DoD notice you're trying to build a Predator UAV. Of course Predators are pretty toothless without Hellfire missiles. So to show there's no hard feelings, we decided to send you some. An entire shipment of Hellfire Missiles should be arriving at your reverse engineering facility in just about ... now.
Re:Send the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
It's obviously a copyright infringement. If we are lucky, maybe Iranians will just shoot them.
You're almost right. Terrorists? Oh who cares! WMDs? Sooo 10 years ago. But.... this is copyright infringement! And it is also circumventing an effective protection device ("digital lock")!! That means war! Send in the troops!
Re:Send the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Open Source (Score:4, Funny)
No, if you give someone a Lamborghini, he/she would spend all of his/her time driving it.
Secret software? (Score:2, Funny)
Did someone not tell Iran this? Or is this just dick-waving? The real technology here would be the engines, radio technology and stealth properties of the airframe. Or maybe us hobbyists are good at laying low - considering the potentials of the technology, and Iran just isn't able to do a Google search because they blocked the Internet
Re:First! (Score:5, Funny)
It must. I see many highly rated comments that are farcical if you know much of anything about the topic under discussion.
Re:Send the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
Who cares about the troops. Send in the lawyers!
We need a surge. Nothing short of drafting every lawyer in the US and allied countries, and sending them to Iran will suffice.