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"Recently, our collected intelligence and precise electronic monitoring revealed that this aircraft intended to infiltrate our country's airspace for spying missions," the General said, and added, "After it entered the Eastern parts of the country, this aircraft fell into the trap of our armed forces and was downed in Iran with minimum damage."
"The wing-to-wing width of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone is around 26 meters with a length of 4.5 meters and height of 1.84 meters."
"The drone is equipped with highly advanced surveillance, data gathering, electronic communication and radar systems," he continued.
"As far as its platform and coating are concerned, this kind of plane has been designed to evade radar systems and from the view point of technology it is amongst the most recent types of advanced aircraft used by the US," the IRGC commander added.
"The technology used in this aircraft had already been used in B2 and F35 planes," Hajizadeh said, and added, "This aircraft is controlled and guided through satellite link and land stations in Afghanistan and the Untied States."
"Military experts are well aware how precious the technological information of this drone is," he reiterated.
Merten sheriffi kirjoitti:Kappas perhanaa. Miten tullutkin tonttiin noin ehjänä? Lienee koneen "kaappaus" sittenkin totta.
Merten sheriffi kirjoitti:Alkaa foliohatut varmaan epäilemään Iranin tehneen styroxista kopion.
adam7 kirjoitti:Merten sheriffi kirjoitti:Alkaa foliohatut varmaan epäilemään Iranin tehneen styroxista kopion.
"Approximately 66 feet wingspan"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel
Arvaustietoa, mutta yleensä koht hyviä arvauksia. Videolla oleva on kyllä kutistunu... ovatko iranilaiset koskaan valehdelleet? Muistatteko photoshopatut ohjukset?
Tuo malli on kotimarkkinoille ja ....lle tarkoitettua propagandaa
"The wing-to-wing width of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone is around 26 meters with a length of 4.5 meters and height of 1.84 meters."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel#cite_note-Another_beast_picture-3Few details of the UAV's characteristics have been released, but estimates of its wingspan range from approximately 65 feet (20 m)[3] to between 75 feet (23 m) and 90 feet (27 m).[4]
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/08/iranian-tv-airs-purported-images-downed-us-drone/?test=latestnewsA senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran.
"Yep, that's it," the official told Fox News. "And it's intact."
Merten sheriffi kirjoitti:Kiina on valmis maksamaan tuosta lennokista pitkän pennin.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/08/iranian-tv-airs-purported-images-downed-us-drone/?test=latestnews#ixzz1fyMHPJAvWith early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President Obama was presented with three separate options for retrieving or destroying the drone. The president ultimately decided not to proceed with any of the plans because it could have been seen as an act of war, the official told Fox News.
Among the options the U.S. considered were sending in a special-ops team to retrieve the drone; sending in a team to blow up the aircraft; and launching an airstrike to destroy it.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/picture-chinas-wind-blade-uav.htmlThe photo suggest China has at least reached the scale-model stage of stealth UAV development. That's roughly where US industry stood in the mid-to-late 1990s. Depending on the age of these projects, it may only be a few years before the first full-scale model appears over Shenyang or Chengdu -- and that's with or without the RQ-170.
“The Iranians don’t have the ability to reverse engineer it, and there was no fancy [ISR] technology on board,” says a veteran intelligence specialist with insight into the program. “There could be a bit of a problem if the Russians or Chinese get the [airframe].”
Video released by the Iranian government shows the airframe intact, but with the landing gear and bottom of the Sentinel hidden. Specialists say the aircraft was not shot down because there is no blast or fire damage. The lack of crash damage would indicate use of the standard UAV flight-termination procedure after an airborne mishap of going into a flat spin. The video also shows an F-117 type grill work over the engine intake to avoid radar reflections from moving parts on the face of the engine. A Lockheed Martin stealth specialist contends that it’s still an acceptable idea if the size of the aircraft is constrained and it has “big, fat, round leading edges” to further attenuate RF reflections.
Russian missile developers explained to Aviation Week the problem they had using the remains of a downed U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth fighter to upgrade the stealth-detection capability of their next-generation air defenses. Because only sections of the F-117 survived intact, "we haven't been able to model the entire [low-observable bomber]," a Russian engineer conceded. "It's not the same as testing against an undamaged F-117. You provide us with a complete stealth aircraft and then we'll tell you how effective we are."