U.S. Drone Reverse-Engineered in Iran with Bombing Capabilities

[IDL]

It's probably a propaganda stunt

 

[2014Classic**]

Looks like a clay model to me.

 

[GhostZ06]

Give me about 100 gallons of fiberglass resin, 40 sheets of 8X4 1/8 inch plywood sheets, 400 screws and nails, 25 2X4X8 foot of lumber with 3 small aircraft tires and about 200 feet of 2 inch wide inch steel rolls like magic I will make a lookalike.

These are the same guys building a lookalike aircraft carrier. This is the stuff they do even though none of these things will work. in the case of the aircraft carrier its something that James Cameron would be impressed by that's about it. The reality is Cameron would have done a better job with it!

i rest my case lol. This is such a bullshit "lets spend more of defense" stunt

 

[tkotom]

lol that picture is embarrassing

 

[HIMBOB]

i rest my case lol. This is such a bullshit "lets spend more of defense" stunt

Who do you think will spend more as a result?

Honestly.

 

[SammyPops]

That's terrible, b/c iran is evil, always invading and warmongering ....

 

[Zankou]

You can't reverse engineer modern semiconductor electronics like that, and even if somebody could, it wouldn't be Iran.

I have little doubt that Iran could make a drone that flies, but that's not the hard part. Any nation can make a model airplane. It's a primitive technology. Making one with high-level avionics and integration with the controller is the hard part. Also, making one with high-efficiency engines, which again you can't just reverse engineer by looking at it.

 

[weich]

This guy think Iranians live in caves and build tanks out of stones.

In B4 Ghost says it's photo shopped.

I don't think Iran is a primitive culture. I just think they brag about things they can't do.

 

[weich]

You can't reverse engineer modern semiconductor electronics like that, and even if somebody could, it wouldn't be Iran.

I have little doubt that Iran could make a drone that flies, but that's not the hard part. Any nation can make a model airplane. It's a primitive technology. Making one with high-level avionics and integration with the controller is the hard part. Also, making one with high-efficiency engines, which again you can't just reverse engineer by looking at it.

Along similar lines, in order to have stealth aircraft you need to have certain materials, pretty exact shapes, etc.

 

[PEB]

You can't reverse engineer modern semiconductor electronics like that, and even if somebody could, it wouldn't be Iran.

I have little doubt that Iran could make a drone that flies, but that's not the hard part. Any nation can make a model airplane. It's a primitive technology. Making one with high-level avionics and integration with the controller is the hard part. Also, making one with high-efficiency engines, which again you can't just reverse engineer by looking at it.

Most of the new hardware is being taken from off the shelve components. You could make a fairly accurate microprocessor controlled drone with open source software. You could even give it the ability to ID objects using open source vision software. The trade off is military grade versions of the components are designed for extreme environments. But that being said you still need the people to reverse engineer this technology and Iran does not have that level of people.

The other big issue is the military used to demand I believe 20 decimal place accuracy to avoid rounding errors? Majority of microprocessors today are only certified for like 16 or slightly more decimal places anything longer could cause rounding errors? The military stated that they required it due to the accuracy they need for targeting systems.

It may not be much of an issue anymore but it was something back in the late 1900's into the 2000's.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214118

http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp-01028.pdf

 

[ZroC]

The aircraft carrier was a movie set ... like literally the set for a movie.

The west noticed it on satellite and panicked.

 

[Zankou]

The aircraft carrier was a movie set ... like literally the set for a movie.

The west noticed it on satellite and panicked.

Yeah, I remember panic being plastered everywhere.

Wait, actually I remember everybody knowing it was a nonfunctional piece of crap replica from the start, and nobody caring, and it barely registered on the news.

Behold the TERROR and PANIC of the WEST

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-construction-of-a-fake-u-s-aircraft-carrier/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/w...looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html?hp&_r=1

 

[ajwbjj87]

it's a work.
probly photoshopped

Nope there still working on developing photoshop

 

[jmadtx]

Nope there still working on developing photoshop

 

[ZroC]

Yeah, I remember panic being plastered everywhere.

Wait, actually I remember everybody knowing it was a nonfunctional piece of crap replica from the start, and nobody caring, and it barely registered on the news.

Behold the TERROR and PANIC of the WEST

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-construction-of-a-fake-u-s-aircraft-carrier/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/w...looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html?hp&_r=1

They saw a movie set on a satellite image and immediately began wondering if they were using it to plan a terror attack. So yes their over reaction can be viewed as a form of panic.

Also, the guy on the last page clearly didn't know it was a movie set, hence why he used images of it to show Iran's shoddy knock offs.

 

[Zankou]

They saw a movie set on a satellite image and immediately began wondering if they were using it to plan a terror attack. So yes their over reaction can be viewed as a form of panic.

Also, the guy on the last page clearly didn't know it was a movie set, hence why he used images of it to show Iran's shoddy knock offs.

You are trying way, way too hard here. None of those news articles bears any resemblance to this gibberish about terrorism and Western panic. You might as well find the face of Jesus in a piece of toast, if you really want it that badly.

 

[MicroBrew]

They saw a movie set on a satellite image and immediately began wondering if they were using it to plan a terror attack. So yes their over reaction can be viewed as a form of panic.

Also, the guy on the last page clearly didn't know it was a movie set, hence why he used images of it to show Iran's shoddy knock offs.

First I am hearing it was a movie set. Until now I just went with media claims it was a propahganda stunt or target practice.

 

[5H3RD0G]

:icon_chee Reports of accidental events now take an even larger chunk out of humanity. Brilliant.

 

[SMillard]

sounds reasonable to publicize a secret technology that no one knows you have or thinks you can do especially a technology based on no one knowing the thing exists even after it does something.

Hell the US denied the existence of the F 117 even though everyone knew they had it, used it in Panama and there were models being sold in hobby shops.

 

[Funkasaurus]

You are trying way, way too hard here. None of those news articles bears any resemblance to this gibberish about terrorism and Western panic. You might as well find the face of Jesus in a piece of toast, if you really want it that badly.

Should've linked the Sherdog thread

People thought it was some propaganda stunt