Iran Says It’s Recovered Data From Captured U.S. Spy Drone & Begun Building a Copy
- Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:32am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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This file photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, left, listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed late last year. (AP Photo/Sepahnews, File)
TEHRAN, Iran (The Blaze/AP) — Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft‘s operational history to prove his claim that Tehran’s military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, state television reported.
Among the drone’s past missions, he said, was surveillance of the compound in northwest Pakistan in which Osama Bin Laden lived and was killed.
Tehran has flaunted the capture of the Sentinel, a top-secret surveillance drone with stealth technology, as a victory for Iran and a defeat for the United States in a complicated intelligence and technological battle. A report from the country’s official Fars News Agency mocked President Barack Obama, saying he had begged the country “to give him back his toy plane.”
This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed late last year. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)
U.S. officials have acknowledged losing the drone. They have said Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard it because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.
Hajizadeh told state television that the captured surveillance drone is a “national asset” for Iran and that he could not reveal full technical details. But he did provide some samples of the data that he claimed Iranian experts had recovered.
“There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes and characters. But we deciphered them by the grace of God,” Hajizadeh said.
He said all operations carried out by the drone had been recorded in the memory of the aircraft, including maintenance and testing.
Hajizadeh claimed that the drone flew over Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan two weeks before the al-Qaida leader was killed there in May 2011 by U.S. Navy SEALs. He did not say how the Iranian experts knew this.
Before that, he said, “this drone was in California on Oct. 16, 2010, for some technical work and was taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan on Nov. 18, 2010. It conducted flights there but apparently faced problems and (U.S. experts) were unable to fix it,” he said.
Hajizadeh said the drone was taken to Los Angeles in December 2010 where sensors of the aircraft underwent testing at an aerospace factory.
“If we had not achieved access to software and hardware of this aircraft, we would be unable to get these details. Our experts are fully dominant over sections and programs of this plane,” he said. “It’s not that we can bring down a drone but cannot recover the data.”
There are concerns in the U.S. that Iran or other states may be able to reverse-engineer the chemical composition of the drone’s radar-deflecting paint or the aircraft’s sophisticated optics technology that allows operators to positively identify terror suspects from tens of thousands of feet in the air.
There are also worries that adversaries may be able to hack into the drone’s database, as Iran claimed to have done. Some surveillance technologies allow video to stream through to operators on the ground but do not store much collected data. If they do, it is encrypted.
Media reports claimed this week that Russia and China have asked Tehran to provide them with information on the drone but Iran’s Defense Ministry denied this.
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Comments (126)
TomSawyer
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:52amHave they tattooed Stupid on the forehead of the American that allowed this to happen yet?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:06amMuslim‘s haven’t contributed to science or humanity for 500 years. And did you notice the flag with Barry and the DEMOCRATS faces on it in the background. And they couldn’t produce or reproduce the materials to create the drone in another 20 years. Islam is a cult of pedophile men, who have no respect for women or any non-cult believer. And gay’s and atheists are high on their HIT LIST.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:11amyou mean the people who decided it was a good idea to send drones into iran? no i’m pretty sure that was the entire defense dept as well as both political parties
hmmm, shall we send drones into iran or bomb them to death. well, i guess we are going to go with the lesser of two evils… LOL
Report Post »seanscythe
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:15amAnyone want to know how they will drop a nuke on the usa? My guess with this kind of tech it wouldn’t be hard to sneak a drone over and fire away. Thank you Obama you single handily killed us all.
Report Post »TomSawyer
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:18amHmm, Maybe it would be a good idea to strongly encrypt the software so even idiots couldn’t easily gain access.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:22am.
Have they tattooed Stupid on the forehead of the American that allowed this to happen yet?….
No. It’s kinda hard to tattoo a forehead that far up one own a$$, but as soon as Obama comes up for air…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:33amDoes anybody here recognize that drone? I’ve been retired from the military for just over 15 years and my knowledge of our drones is from what I have seen on TV or read about. This particular one looks nothing like anything that I have seen before. We do have quite a few possibly current and more recently retired military personnel here. So, does anybody have any ideas about this thing?
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:33amObama you have a Teflon coating – cut the crap, just send the design plans to Iran – it would give Chris Mathews and the Liberal Media a trill up their leg.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:38amWhen Achmed had that news conference last month, while standing next to the drone, woulda been a good time to press the self destruct button…… It did have a self destruct button didn’t it ?
Report Post »eagledown
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:55am@RJJINGADSDEN RIGHT!!! Thank you, As I posted when this story first came out. This isn’t even a good injection molded copy of one. FAKE! There has to be reason we are let to believe this thing is real. Please, can we change the conversation please? I might be wrong, as RJJINGADSDEN mentioned, he’s never seen anything like this. Can anyone in the military please post link to a photo of one that looks like this? Thank you.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:26pmYou Ftards think that Iran is dangerous…Total Bullcrap! They are a nation full of @ussies and you shiver and shake because you think they actually have something…They do NOT!
Report Post »whofarted
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:54pmThink about who is stupid, If they copy the drone using our plans we can take control of it or monitor what it looks at, sneaky
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:01pmEAGLEDOWN, I did wonder the same thing when this story first hit here. I recall that several others posted that they thought it was either a fake or really odd looking. From all of the TV, radio, written reports I have never heard it called by it’s military designation or any kind of name other than a drone.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:21pmIf Iran has reverse engineered it; does that mean it will crash like ours did?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:29pm@RJJinGadsden
Report Post »I seem to remember it was called the RQ-170. Hope that helps, can’t find any other photos of it.
The-Monk
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:33pm@RJJinGadsden
Report Post »Sorry, I didn’t read the article first, so you already know the name it is called. My bad. : (
I should read first and post second but, I’m so sick about this, I didn’t want to read the article.
windoffate
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 1:43pmWe probably gave it to them!
Report Post »eagledown
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:11pm@THE-MONK Thanks for the heads up; RQ-170. I found this. http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/rq-170-sentinel/
But the REAL one is 88ft wide, the one in this photo looks like maybe 20ft wide and still looks like a crappy model to me.
Report Post »Gizzy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 3:03pmI kinda like the skulls in place of the stars but there should have been 57 or is it 50 of them!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:18pmEAGLEDOWN and THE-MONK, Thanks for the additional info. I found very little earlier today, but did find one site that was interesting, and will link it below. I‘m still baffled as to why this thing was not self destructed by it’s hotseat pilot on the ground when things started to go wrong. One would think that would be SOP if control is lost for a certain length of time. Then again, if that much jamming was possible, self destruct commands may well have been jammed. Then again, in this day and age of electronics you would think that a self destruct would have been internal rather than letting the thing crash land. I am still hoping this might turn out to be something like what I read about the USS Pueblo a long time ago. A book described that incident as an NSA op that eventually revealed coded electronic info that lead to our fore knowledge of the Tet Offensive.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 6:19pmAlmost forgot
Report Post »http://phys.org/news/2011-12-rq-drone-ambush-facts-iranian.html
eagledown
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:05pm@RJJINGADSDEN Just read that link. Ok, let‘s ask another question I haven’t seen here yet. Let’s presume they jammed communications and changed the GPS co-ordinance. How did they know it was there to begin with? I thought these are stealth?. So, lets think about this. I’m an Iranian at some radar post eating my falafel sandwich, he calls his superiors “Engage the special Drone Radar Jamming thingy”. So, they had this at the ready. And, I would presume that means we haven’t flown a drone mission over Iran since, because they can easily steal our air craft. Just thinking here. Sorry, this story still stinks. I’ll stick to my first assumption; Fake; CIA Psych Ops
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:52pm@eagle
The UAV is real and Iran was able to take control of it. Stealth does not mean ‘invisible’.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 7:54pmI always suspected that Obama GAVE this Drone to them. Don’t ask me why… Just seemed too easy to me. That’s all.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:23pmI just noticed the photo in the background. Is that Zimmerman with a short beard? Al Sharpton will try to introduce it as evidence. : )
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:54amEAGLEDOWN, I can think of three possibilities. Our military has given them an electronic Trojan Horse. Iran got lucky and a malfunction brought it down in their laps. China provided assistance with their now stolen knowledge of stealth, possibly with a way to detect and a way to bring it down. I am hoping for the Trojan Horse possibility, but one never knows.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:48amYea, I figured as much…in order for this communist regime to prevent Israel from attacking Iran, mr. dictator gave them this free gift along with a lifetime entitlement membership card.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:26amAnd who knows how much else has been transfered by Obama and his idiotic policies to them so as to make us and Israel yet more and more vulnerable?
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:26amExactly my thought, why else would it still be in one piece.
Report Post »cayenne523
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:47amThere needs to be an investigation over this. I believe with all my heart that this drown was given to Iran on purpose. I believe there is alot more evil in the White House than many believe.
Report Post »Commander8080
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:27pmI agree, and why was it not destroyed. It is hard to fight an enemy when your commander and chimp is doing all he can to give them as much as they want.
Report Post »chuck_in_st_paul
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:44amThis whole things stinks right from the git-go. I can’t wait to find out the real agenda.
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:43amClinton gives China missile guidance technology, Obama gives Iran drone technology and Pakistan and China stealth helicopter technology. Will the left stop at nothing to undermine this country??? Where’s the outrage???
Report Post »dgonzalez01
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:01amYou are absolutely right. There are no coincidences. These are deliberate actions taken by our left wing government.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:14am…Hookers in a hotel cause upset over non-payment; oh, the outrage !^)
>SECRETion: the process of segregating, elaborating, and releasing some material
Report Post »either functionally specialized (as saliva) or isolated for excretion (as urine).
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:28am@Teufel – also as China is a ally of Iran, its almost guaranteed that this technology is in their hads as well; plus Obama has given to China who knows what else = remember the SLBM launch that was covered up about a year ago? It his the newswaves big for a few days then the White House ordered a complete silence on the fact…
China or Russia passing the message of – we are here at any time we want…
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:09pmIt would have to be the Chinese who reversed engineered the drone.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:43amnothing says counterproductive like US foreign policy.
be nice to america or we will bring ‘democracy’ to your country
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:30amYou would think, as important as it is not to let this information into enemy hands, that there would be an explosive charge that could be set off remotely and also a few explosive bolts that would destroy the plane in case an enemy tried to take it apart. This is, or at least was, common on ICBM’s.
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:54amWhat would be perfect would be to install explosive devices in a select number of these and crash land them in foreign countries and when their top scientists begin examining them, detonate them. Maybe after a while they will begin to leave our stuff alone.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:08am“leave our stuff alone”….are you kidding? We are at war with them, why would they leave our expensive technology alone
they’ll leave our stuff alone when we leave them alone
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:52am” they’ll leave our stuff alone when we leave them alone.” Wish that were true but these dudes have been hate-baited by their fanatical mullahs for decades. They are like our Lefties : filled with hate, anger, and brainwashed rage. They won’t stop leaving us alone until and after their mullahs have been locked away from delivering their hate speech for 2 generations . That is, unfortunately, NOT going to be done. Therefore, these guys will vent their rage and we / Western culture are their targets.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:26amSo…which did we give them first…the drone or the codes ?
Report Post »Saywhatonemoretime
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 11:10amcodes…all chips bought from china.
Report Post »Auntie izlam
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:24amIf it is true Obama handed it to them on a silver platter. It’s probably part of his efforts to make them feel better about themselves, just like his handing over NASA.
Obama-BOOOOOO!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:33amYes .. anything for his brothers.
November 2012 .. vote LIBERTY! OMG
Report Post »321481
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:20amThis wasn’t a surprise, the Obama administration should have blown up the drone before the Iranians got their hands on it. I expect the Russians help the Iranians with the reverse engineering, we all know Obama is the marxist “sole mate” to the Russians. There’s nothing like helping our enemies.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:47amWell, Vladimir, knows Obama can be “ more flexible ” after the election . …here or there ….
Report Post »Ted Zeppelin
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:14amThe picture shows the drone‘s under carriage shrouded because the diaper heads couldn’t get the gear down at the time.
By now they have the ops, flight, maintenance and parts manuals after making the last payments to Obama’s campaign.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:23am@Ted Zep..Yep..that’s what I figured.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:29amDo you remember when the Iranians revolted because they were given the “illusion” of an election and the dictator Ahmadinejad kept his office?..and when they revolted and Ahmadindjad murdered them by the hundreds in the streets..Obama did nothing..although he and Hilary did use our military to take down our‘s and Israel’s freinds in the ME so as to replace them with the Muslim Brotherhood. Hil and Obama are actually partnered with them here in the states to my understanding and they are in key positions of our government..Only a Constitutiionalist could turn this thing around..and as the President of World Ministries said..it may be too late even if we get our Constitutionalist..
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:09amIran may be saying that they have not shared the info with our re-set friend, Russia, but will the Iranis dangle the information for a more rapid delivery of the long-range missles for which they have a contract with the Russians. Will they use that info plus their oil to get China to allow them more access to cash and supplies despite the “embargo” and diplomatic means that the O regime claims is working so well?
Report Post »Iran will use this to its own advantage and the regime will go along, “extending the hand of friendship,“ while sending US college professors to attend ”educational” conferences in Teheran.
barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:17amAre those “educational conferences ” in Tehran when the US college professors plan their international Occupy events with their Marxists / anti-capitalist buddies ? Or are those the ones they hold in Canada with their Adbuster sponsors ? So confusing…
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:07amDid they get all that memory, where it had been, when it had maintenence, from the drone itself or was the information simply faxed to the Iranians from the White House?
As LUKERW said……….a gift between Muslims.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:02amIt’s a new arms race! And it’s not just Iran, either. Russia has begun a new race toward high-tech arms as well! But this time, they have the money to compete with us!
Report Post »And China never stopped. China has been reverse engineering our technology for more than a decade. Remember the spy plane that was forced down inside China about ten years ago? China kept the plane and has been reverse engineering the technology ever since!
blanco5
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:02amSo, which one of the thousands of treasonous acts that the white black prez islama will actullay start the impeachment process?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:10amDream on. It will never happen. The Government is filled with Communists, socialists and Marxist..Too late.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:11amthis one might fall more into the “ incompetence ” category which his administration has also earned high marks in …let’s see , who did they blame for this one ? I forget. Maybe George Bush ? Maybe the Republicans ? Maybe the nasty, rich bankers ? Maybe all capitalists ? Just can’t remember as there have been so many…
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:17amThis is a FAIL of epic proportions for Obama for not having the drone blown up…
Report Post »yathink
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:21amMaybe never, lest we wait till they are on top of us banging our heads into the sidewalk and we are screaming for our lives before we draw and kill the thugs. (Zimmerman) At which time we will be the agressors and our fate be sealed without due proccess. May God help us all.
Report Post »Blunt_Man_
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:59amJust to add……it took a military drone crash for these idiots to learn how to build an RC airplane? Welcome to 2012.
Report Post »Blunt_Man_
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:58amToo dumb to build one prior to finding one….then flaunting it like you have intelligence?
Reminds me of a jock in school copying someone elses work and taking credit for it.
Poor Poor Iran, guess they have to have something to make them feel better about their little man syndrome.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:08amAnyone with a little money and some time can build a spy drone. Not very hard at all…To put on firing capabilities and to monitor it across the other side of the world takes a lot more ingenuity. They do not have that capability and NEVER will…Kinda like building a rocket that could hit Israel with a payload…They cannot do it. To think they can is plain stupid.They do not have the capability and will not posess it for many decades, no matter what the warmonger military armchair QBs say…
Report Post »If they had it, they would use it immediately. They do not and will not get it….
They give Iran too much credit to keep us engaed in a war. mode If you believe them you are just a pawn. Iran has nothing but a bark…and if that scares you, I call you a panty waisted moron…there ya go you sissies!
Anyone remember the Republican Guard of Iraq? Yea…that is the Muslim fighter. A bunch of @ussies…
therealconservative
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:20am@BAD
Talk about a armchair QB, you‘re clueless on what Iran can and can’t do. LTC my a$$.
BTW did you pay your taxes, deadbeat
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:55amTHEREALCONSERVATIVE. Lmao!
BADDOOGY is one of those “John Murtha” Colonels.
Well, I actually think Murtha was a “Full-Bull.”
~Bull~ being the operative word here for both…
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 12:57pm@Bad
I have my owns eye’s and brain, not Ron Paul wesites, and I read intell messages everyday
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:56amIran performing their version of Obama’s “ social justice ” politics – aka “revenge.” ( wonder when they’ll pick up on the “ hate the rich ” – aka “ redistribute ” )
Report Post »suedstate
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:56amI wondered the same thing, this is just sharing technology with lesser powers so we can all be equal.
Obummers dream.
Hope we make it to November
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:52am“Red Dawn” ring any bells? — Who holds corp usa‘s ’debt,’ and where was that Island O just gave Russia??? ;-)
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:53amWouldn’t you think that one of the Geniuses could have anticipated something like this happening ?????
Report Post »They should have had an automatic self destruct mode for any unauthorized landing situation…..but what do I know !!!!! We should find out where this drone is and destroy it….. ASAP.
barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:01amThat lack of insight sounds like the work of our Department of Justice. Probably just another Fast and Furious Boo-Boo.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:52amA gift between Muslims?
Report Post »Kerstile
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:51amLet’s hope the tekkies hid the worms well. It sure would be nice to see their entire military grid collapse.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:43amWhat they haven’t discovered is that it is designed to blow up, self-destruct, and take irantooslow with it.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:59amThis is by design!
Report Post »As much as i would love to say its only Hussain, there have been several incidences that have occured that either should not have happened or should have been destroyed at all costs.
The F117 stealth
The spy plane by the Chinese! (that plane never should have landed on their soil or any where!
The chopper in Pakistan.
And this, only some of the ones we know about.
Popp40
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:18am@Yougottobekidding….you hit the nail on the head. Obama wants to bring us down a notch and what better way then to give out our secrets especially when it comes to our military. After all our military is the best in the world….that is when they let our military do what they were trained to do, instead of holding them back like they are in Afganstan. I just wonder how this administration is going to manage to give one of our top secret subs or aircraft carriers over to Iran, Russia, China or any other country that wants to destroy us.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:42amObama’s way of seeing that they had what they needed to do their reverse-engineering. Otherwise he would have had it blown up as those in charge wanted to do..
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 9:40amAs Obama & Co sigh.. ahhh MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! (if NOT, then why no “self destruct button?)
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:07amDuh. The arrogant Democrats don’t do “ wars ” well. Last one who did was Harry Truman who said ” The Buck stops here .“ That was before the Obama Crowd took over and started their ” Who Can We Blame ?” brand of divisive politics.
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