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Iran says downed US drone; threatens response 'outside our borders'
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Published: 04.12.11, 21:08
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61. #38 John - Your posts are worthy
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.05.11)
of your name, they both indcate a typical public facility, aka/WC
62. #55 very funny post you have there
Iranian Jew ,   LA   (12.05.11)
We have overestimated our human condition? What does it mean? Should we move backwards towards and get back to stone age? We see that in Ahmadinejad. He has definately stepped backwards to being an ape. We simply do not trust you and your mullahs. We know how you smack down defenseless people on the streets of Tehran. Are you proud of that? Get your monkey and the towel heads to stop planning to kill us and we will leave your dumb asses alone to your own selves.
63. Sipahi # 52
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (12.05.11)
1. Your reply did not address my point that in a world with over a billion Muslim Jihadists it s only natural that American's and Jews would be hated. This does not mean much just like currently Turks seems to be very popular in the Ara Islamic world, but you know as unfortunately I know are very much disliked in Europe. As said n my sentence Unfortunately since this kind of hatred for anyone is unacceptable. 2. What did US do n Iraq? Saddam had gassed his own citizens in Halepce, (I have Iraqi Kurdish friends here in NY) During the war with Iran his army took Kurdish children as young as 13 years old and sent to the Iranian front to be killed. Invaded Kuwait. And the list goes on and on. Do you think the world would be a better place with Saddam in power? Or maybe you don;t care since you also have issues with Kurds? 3. If the native Indians were unhappy with the US the constitution gives them and all Americans the freedom to raise their opinions and f the opinion has enough support to create a political movement. In fact some Canadian Natives in Quebec were unhappy about 20 years ago when Canada wanted to build a water dam that would cover a lot of Indian land with water and they did raise their voice loudly so that the project was never materialized. Unlike n Turkey where Kurdish politicians are often shunned and even harassed when they are talking in the TBMM (parliament) just like recently when one CHP member was kicked out of the pulpit by AKP members. These are some of the Turkish realities that you either lost contact or would rather pretend they do not exist.
64.  no.47 was a response to#14
Jennie ,   Israel/US   (12.05.11)
Sorry, Sarah...
65. #55 if we wanted to...
Henry from New York ,   USA   (12.05.11)
we (the US) could reduce the Iranian military to nothing through our aircraft carrier taskforces and missiles. It would be rather cruel of us if we were able to eliminate the Basij entirely (I suspect they would be dispersed). After all it would cause quite a drop in your land's male population and upset quite a few people. You might have an army of several million fanatics, but there are many circumstances where numbers are meaningless against technology (like I said though, they'd have to be all gathered on the battlefield rather than cowering). Of course, we could just take the same approach as we took with Serbia. Bomb Iran into humiliating submission; that's always fun... for the US newspapers anyway.
66. reza shah @ 28, there is a story how Soviets copied
leo ,   usa   (12.05.11)
B-29 and named it Tu-4. Because of fear of Stalin Soviet designers even copied a patch on the side of the airplane (Soviets had only one working B-29 to copy from, the airplane, which had to make emergency landing on Soviet territory after bombing run on Japan). Guess what, copied Tu-4 performed perfectly ... in 1948 and ... it had to be scrapped immediately because it was already obsolete. Happy reverse engineering, my friend. Harry, life goes on.
67. Kam # 54,55, thank you for the wake up call.
leo ,   usa   (12.05.11)
We will be much better from now on.
68. Drone Diplomacy and American Lies
Alan Smith UK   (12.05.11)
Sure it was an unarmed spy drone, just like the ones that were used in Pakistan and Afghanistan to destroy innocent people attending wedding parties. The Iranians were well within their rights to shoot it down if it was violating their air space.
69. downed drone
VMSmith ,   Grok, usa   (12.05.11)
feel free to download the drones tech. to as many computers as possilble
70. #68 Alan Smith
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.05.11)
There are several types of drones, armed & unarmed and yourself Iran is threatening to take action outside of Iran, the USA will do likewise to Iranian interests Drones are rather slow, you too are likewise, failing to understand that USA has B-52's that can fly above anything that Iran is able to launch
71. It was not shot down
IRAN#1   (12.05.11)
Iranian military used electronic cyber warfare(e.g. hackers) to take control of the drone and have it land in Iran, brilliant interception on a football Sunday!!!! It is now in Iranian custody and Iran has agreed to allow Chines/Russian and North Koreans to visit it on behalf of the USA :)
72. TO NR. 50.
SJOERD RUURD VDV ,   MULTIVERSE   (12.06.11)
ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY AND ALSO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GRADUALLY AT LAST HAS A UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST FOR THE BETTER IN 2010/2011.
73. #72 sjoerd
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.06.11)
Your answer has no relation to my question and seems more fluff than anything.
74. :)) to 45
Erik ,   Italy   (12.06.11)
Reading your comments, I gather that you have studied on an iranian reverse engineered book of English grammar :) Yes of course,you will copy the sensors. Sensors inside crashed UAV are always in a very good shape. Also for the software, the task will be very simple. Your “reversed” Engeneers will give their e-mail and the drone's remains will upload the kernel directly on their PC. You needed more than 20 years to make the bad copy of a primitive GBU-15 (Qassed); within 50 years your “reversed” Engeneers will be still wondering which is the front and which is the back of the drone. Without some pictures of an almost intact RQ-170 in your hands,we can quietly assume that you have only thousands of debris. You are right also about your balistic missiles.They do explode. For any informations,ask to Hassan Moqaddam and see the pictures of your completly leveled missile base near Bid Kaneh.Congratulations.
75. Simple precaution to prevent it
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (12.06.11)
All drones or other sensitive vehicles must have a self-destruct device that activates when the vehicle loses contact with its controllers for more than a few minutes
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