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Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone
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."
Welcome our new Persian Robot Overlords.
It's obviously a copyright infringement. If we are lucky, maybe Iranians will just shoot them.
If only it were the RIAA or MPAA instead of the CIA, then Iran would be in serious trouble.
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.
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 ... .
They'll be thwarted once they discover all the measurements are in Imperial and not metric.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Is it just me, or does copying a $100m spy drone that you easily captured seem like a bad direction to go?
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
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.
The Iranian Military just announced they are copying this comment.
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.
No, if you give someone a Lamborghini, he/she would spend all of his/her time driving it.
How is drone technology a "secret"? Mixed UAV/FPV platforms are available for your everyday hobbyist at well under a few hundred $$$. Anyone with a basic grasp of high-school engineering could rig it up to drop bombs/shoot a gun/take pictures in a lazy weekend.
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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
It must. I see many highly rated comments that are farcical if you know much of anything about the topic under discussion.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell