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Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone

Posted by timothy on from the sir-we're-still-counting dept.

AmiMoJo writes "The Iranian military says it has captured an unmanned U.S. drone aircraft in its airspace over Gulf waters. The Revolutionary Guards said they had brought down a ScanEagle — one of the smaller, less sophisticated drones employed by the Americans. The U.S. said it was looking into the reports." (The U.S. response so far, also reported by Reuters and others, seems to be "We're not missing any drones.")

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  1. I think the inter-agency conversation went like by HPHatecraft · · Score: 5, Funny

    CIA: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
    Pentagon: What happened?
    CIA: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
    Pentagon: We're sending a squad up.
    CIA: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
    Pentagon: Who is this? What's your operating number?
    CIA: Uh...

    1. Re:I think the inter-agency conversation went like by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Funny

      That was after another conversation that went like this:

      Pentagon: What happen?
      CIA: Somebody shot down us the drone. We get signal.
      Pentagon: Main screen turn on. It's you!
      Ahmadinajad: How are you gentlemen? All your tech are belong to us! You are on the way to destruction.
      Pentagon: What you say?
      Ahmadinajad: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha!
      Pentagon: Take off every MiG. We know what you're doing. Move MiG. For great justice!

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  2. Drones? by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the summary: "The U.S. response so far, also reported by Reuters and others, seems to be 'We're not missing any drones.'"

    How could any one entity tell? At this point there's the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, the NSA, the SS, the regular Army, the Army Rangers, the Navy, the Marines, the Seals, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the State Department, the DoD, Mercenaries (ie "Civilian Contractors"), and Sheriff Joe Arpaio all with drones. Could any one entity speak for all of those at this point?

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    1. Re:Drones? by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 5, Informative

      Combined Air Operations Center. They'll know. One agency monitoring everything including, but not limited to, commercial airliners, military flights, private planes, U(C)AVs, and even (in some cases) model airplanes and rockets.

      Now, as to if the CAOC would tell Reuters anything other than the time of day, that's anyone's guess.

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  3. Re:Bag limit? by mrmagos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drone season, fire!
    ...
    You're despicable.

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  4. Re:Newsflash: This is not an achievement by canadiannomad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let them shoot down 1,000 more for all I care. Just more american workers in american aircraft factories with more work to do. Nobody dies, and it benefits our domestic economy.

    Please stop saying that building something with non-renewable resources and blowing it up improves the economy.
    http://economics.about.com/od/warandtheeconomy/a/warsandeconomy.htm
    or
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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    Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.