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."
Re:This Conflict could have been prevented... (Score:4, Informative)
And what happened to Khatami? The moderate Iran President was eventually overruled by Iran's religious hardliners for being too "moderate" or "modern",
You shot down your own attempt at revisionist history there. Ahmedinejad isn't really all that radical and would probably go along with some kind of improved relations if he could get away with it, but that's no more an option for him now than it was for Khatami ten years ago.
Re:Release the drone.... (Score:5, Informative)
Iran not only constructs its own drones, it manufactures its own jet fighters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghods_Ababil [wikipedia.org]
Re:Doubtful they have "reverse-engineered" anythin (Score:4, Informative)
Well, let's see — not only is Iran Times is not state-owned, it is published in the US. It is also just repeating a Washington Post story [washingtonpost.com]. Further, the fact that the US is continuing to fly drone missions over Iran unabated runs counter to the Iranian government's narrative that they have the capability to "take down" a US drone in the first place.
Is FOX News [foxnews.com] a better source?
How about:
Stars and Stripes [stripes.com]
Business Insider [businessinsider.com]