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Offline thundley4

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Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« on: November 08, 2012, 01:24:28 PM »
No link yet, but this happened on November 1.  Just now being reported though.

ETA:  Now they say it was fired on, but not shot down.
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2012, 02:17:58 PM »
Should have been an immediate response, but thewan won't do anything about muzzies since he is one.
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2012, 03:37:32 PM »
From a report I saw on CNN, it was two SU-25s that fired their internal cannon at the drone, and the shells went under it.



From the Wikipedia article, the Iranian Air Force "acquired" them when Iraqi pilots flew them there in the 1991 Gulf War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2012, 04:40:27 PM »
I wouldn't take anything from either them or us as completely true on something like this, both sides have excellent reasons to fudge like Hell or just outright lie on any of the details.
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 11:10:16 AM »
It is normal to take so long to report on this stuff?
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2012, 11:13:57 AM »
Quote from: GrantWD on November 09, 2012, 11:10:16 AM
It is normal to take so long to report on this stuff?

Only if you are afraid it might affect your chances at re-election.  Iran is testing us and going to hit hard soon. Obama won't do a thing, will probably apologize for Israel's ground breaking one of their bombs.
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2012, 01:47:25 PM »
Quote from: GrantWD on November 09, 2012, 11:10:16 AM
It is normal to take so long to report on this stuff?

Obama and Co. like to make everything "classified" until it serves their purposes.
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Re: Unmanned drone shot down by Iran in international airspace.
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 09:23:00 AM »
Quote from: Dori on November 11, 2012, 01:47:25 PM
Obama and Co. like to make everything "classified" until it serves their purposes.

One of the darker truths about the military is that they will classify anything that might make them look like there could be some egg on their own faces, which is why I don't believe either side on this one.  If it was a routine surveillance mission over the Straits with no breaches of anyone's national airspace, there wouldn't be any reason to classify the mission profile itself, so I wouldn't invest any outrage in this one.  It's a frickin' drone, we do all kinds of covert (i.e. illegal) spying with them, that's what they're for.  Does anyone really believe the stealth drone that crashed in Iran some time back really went down because a software malfunction took it off course from its normal job of recording porpoise movements in the Persian Gulf for the benefit of the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace?
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