The more pertinent question is, since when did Iran have a drone program? Ah, that dates back to 2011, when President Obama literally gave Iran U.S. drone technology, during the RQ 170 incident. I know, you think I’m making this up. Why would Obama do anything at all for the Persians, stemming from giving them drone technology to removing sanctions, to paying them billions for the release of US hostages? You’d have to ask him.
But I do know this.
Source: Wikipedia:
On 12 December 2011, U.S. administration asked Iran to return the captured U.S. drone.[27] The day before, on 11 December, General Salami stated that “no nation welcomes other countries’ spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin.”[28] On 13 December 2011, Defence Minister of Iran, dismissed the request and said “Instead of apologising to the Iranian nation, it is brazenly asking for the drone back.” And the ministry spokesman, Mehmanparast, stated that “it seems he [Obama] has forgotten that Iran’s airspace was violated, spying operations were undertaken, international laws were violated and that Iran’s internal affairs were interfered with. … Instead of an official apology and admitting to this violation, they are making this request.”[29]
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticised Obama’s decisions on the drone, saying that, after the aircraft went down, the president should have ordered an air strike within Iran: “The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. You can do that from the air … and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.” Instead, “he asked nicely for them to return it, and they aren’t going to”.[30]
On 17 January 2012, an Iranian company said it would send miniature, pink, toy versions of the captured drone to President Obama as a response to the request for sending the drone back.
Shortly thereafter, Iran announced it has reverse engineered it.
On 10 December 2011, Iran announced that it intended to carry out reverse engineering on the captured RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft.[6] In April 2012, the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution claimed to have succeeded in extracting the entirety of the data collected by the drone and are currently in the process of building a replica of the aircraft.[33] Iran claimed to have been approached by countries, including China and Russia, seeking information on the drone.[34] Although U.S. officials expressed concern over the possibility of China or Russia receiving the drone’s technology, they cast doubt on whether Iran could replicate the technology of the aircraft, as well as the amount of intelligence data available, due to the precautions installed for malfunctioning drones.[35] On May 2014, Iranian state TV displayed what was claimed to be a reverse engineered RQ-170. Sources familiar with the RQ-170’s design say that the Iranian RQ-170 is merely a static mock-up rather than a flyable aircraft.[36] In November 2014 Iran claimed to have carried out a successful test flight of an aircraft based on reverse engineering of the RQ-170.
Isn’t that heartwarming?
Fast forward to today, the United States shot down an Iranian drone over the Syria — the second drone this month.
The Iranian Shaheed 129 drone looks very similar to the MQ-1 Predator Drone made by General Atomics, who sells these armed UCAVs to UAE and Turkey.
MQ1
Iran’s Shaheed 129
The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle about 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on Coalition forces. This is the second the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone in less than a month.
The coalition forces were manning an established combat outpost to the northeast of At Tanf where they are training and advising partner ground forces in the fight against ISIS. This is the same location where another pro-regime UAV dropped munitions near Coalition forces before it was shot down on June 8.
The F-15E intercepted the armed UAV after it was observed advancing on the coalition position. The armed UAV was shot down when it continued to advance on the coalition’s position without diverting its course.
While the country obsesses over Russian phantoms, the DOD is in the process of expanding an illegal war in Syria — furthering a neocon strategy that has wreaked havoc upon America’s balance sheet for the past 30 years.
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Fuck Iran. Might as well call those drones ‘Valeries’. What is it with the Midgets.
We fucked them over in 53. Operation Ajax.
The Shah was brutal. SAVIK would come in your house at night and rape everyone. We made that happen.
You think they forgot?
That Catholics In Action Agency has wreaked havoc wherever they have tried to extend the arm of US influence around the world. It seems, at least from the outside, that very few of their covert, nefarious activities have succeeded in doing anything except causing pain to the “local” population and denigrating the reputation of the USofA.
Some friends of ours in Guatemala recently gave us a little inside history of the Guatemalan civil war and how the above mentioned “Catholics” fomented and aided said conflict. This resulted in chaos throughout the country and paved the way for the gangs we now see coming from that region. It was very illuminating and very disheartening to learn how our government “operated” behind the scenes during that skirmish.
Smedley Butler knew whereof he spoke. The activities of our government in attempted regime change and/or aiding big business, has never and will never work. True change can only come from within be it a country or a person. Overthrowing a government to help establish or maintain a business venture is wrong on all levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
What does that have to do with us? Here today. Never been an expert just an American. Not real big on the sins of bastards one did not know in anyway. It is the ultimate trap dude.
Balance of firepower – for as long as Iran-Russia-China can keep the USA in check, ww3 is unlikely to happen no matter how much that shitty little bastion of zionazi terrorism, the State of Israel that is, tries to incite it.
Good afternoon and Seig Heil!, my fav lil’ jew hating bro.
That shit is ridiculous. I always advise my friends not to go after Jews. They’ve had thousands of years of practice.
Obama was weak in standing up to the neocon warmongers. Kept waiting for him to spend the political capital that the country (and identity politics) had so easily gifted him. But he just coasted and wasted his fine communications skills on pap.
Thought Trump would be better; but so far, he is far worse. He’s working to eff up Obama’s two accomplishments: Iran nuclear deal and Cuba. And they’ve de-balled him on Russia.
Sad.
You call 0bamas Iran/Nuke deal a good thing?!?!? lol
Cuba was nothing more than a stroke for 0bama’s ego and something he could write about in his memoirs. Meaningless in the overall scheme of things.
I wouldn’t call shooting down one of their jets “deballing”. Looks to me like our troops in the sandbox are about to get the green light to go “weapons free”.
Iran accomplishment? hahahah good one.
Yes. That accomplishment put the breaks on the neocon plans to manipulate us into war with Iran and is Obama’s greatest achievement. I only wish he had the stones to go on TV and explain to the average moron about the traitorous agendas that we are manipulated into serving.
Unhappily, President Trump does not seem to have a clue about all this as he haplessly reacts to any neocon stimuli that brush against his cilia.
Don’t piss on Persians. They have excellent engineering.
Can’t wait until history proves out Obama was a bum and Trump was the 1st of a series of Presidents with a USA clue (though he isn’t the best start, it’s a start).
Fact: Obama abused narcotics and marijuana in his youth. There are serious neurological consequences for young people doing serious amounts of blow and Mary Jane before the age of 21.
Fact: he was an average student who got admitted, and paid tuition as an international citizen and not American citizen.
Fact: he looks more than Frank Marshall Davis than he does Barack the senior
Fact: he can barely work out with 5 pound dumbbells. Most men are typically not that physically weak.