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Chinese delegation currently in Iran to copy the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in 2011.
According to the information being spread by Chinese Defense forums, a group of 17 Chinese expert would have recently arrived in Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect and bring back to Ch...
Top military aviation stories of 2011: drones up and downs, stealth projects exposed and Libya’s 7-month-long war.
Update, Dec. 28 21.35 GMT A quick look at the main events and news I’ve covered on this blog during 2011 helped me to identify the topics that can be used to characterize the year The post ...
Iran's new (amateur) surveillance drone unveiled
Updated Dec. 27 10.00 GMT Since Dec. 4, I’ve been constantly monitoring Iranian media for pictures, news releases or statements about the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone captured by Iran. Even if th...
Size, position and orientation of the captured U.S. stealth drone in Iran: an architect's analysis
Many speculations and very few known facts surround the mysterious capture of the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone in Iran. While the U.S. claim that the robot was lost as a consequence of a t...
F-22 and F-15E mishaps: two accidents, one cause. And not even drones are pilot's error-free
The U.S. Air Force has recently made available two Accident Investigation Board (AIB) reports about mishaps that have become somehow famous in the last year or so. Until the U.S. Air Force releas...
Captured U.S. stealthy drone in Iran: the simplest solution solves the mystery
The solution to the mystery of the capture of the U.S. (once) most secret drone could be much simpler than everyone has speculated so far. Today’s post on the topic will in fact provide some ...
Unknown hatch on captured U.S. stealth drone raises questions
The amout of contribution I receive each time I publish a blog post on the stealth drone now part of Iran’s asset is amazing. For instance, yesterday, few minutes after publishing the Infograph...
Infographic: how the U.S. top secret stealth drone was captured by Iran
Even if the story that the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone captured by Iran was hijacked using a GPS spoofing attack is based on known facts and vulnerabilities highlighted in Air Force offic...
Captured U.S. stealthy drone was hijacked exploiting GPS vulnerability. But hack description does not solve the mystery
Eventually there is an explanation for the mysterious capture of the U.S. stealth drone by Iran. In an exclusive interview to the Christian Science Monitor, an Iranian engineer (on condition of...
"Three U.S. and four Israeli drones captured in Iran to be ...splay soon": Tehran Times says. "Downed" RQ-170 saga continues
Tehran Times reported that Iran is about to put on display “foreign spy drones in Iran’s possession” within an exhibition that will also showcase the “latest domestically manufacture elec...
U.S. MQ-9 crashes at Mahe, Seychelles. Not a good period for America's robot war
News agencies are reporting that a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper crashed today at the Seychelles International Airport in Mahe. The cause of the crash is unknown and under investigation but the Reaper (also k...
How many U.S. stealthy drones were actually lost in Iran? New theories about the "downed" RQ-170 surface
Iran will clone and maybe improve the U.S. RQ-170 drone captured on Dec. 4, during a surveillance mission inside the Iranian airspace. One of the few certain facts is that Iran will reverse-engin...
Updated: Iranian newspaper ads makes fun of Lockheed Martin... video showing alleged Sentinel is a doctored LM Polecat promo
The mysterious episode that led to the capture of the U.S. stealthy drone has been on the pages of the newspapers all around the world. On Dec. 10, the Iranian daily Hamshahri published an advert...
"This is the school in Iran where the captured U.S. stealthy drone is hidden" source says. Maybe.
According to “CalebS” a very well informed source of this website who has already provided valuable advice to study the high resolution pictures released yesterday by the Iranian Republic Gua...
Captured U.S. stealth drone: let's analyze the latest pictures. Real robot with few foam parts? Last hope: a trojan horse
As some U-2 spyplanes are landing in RAF Fairford on their way to some Middle East forward operating base (to undertake some reconnaissance missions over Iran, replacing the RQ-170 drone?), let�...