Unidentified drone crashes in Iran

Reuters
28 August 2005

TEHERAN - An unmanned drone aircraft has crashed into mountains in the central Iranian province of Lorestan, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday, but it was unclear where it came from.

We have not yet identified it, a ministry spokesman said.

Drones have been the subject of feverish media speculation in Iran, with commentators asking if the United States would use them to spy on Iran after U.S. forces employed them in Afghanistan.

Most of the key sites of Iran's disputed nuclear programme lie in the centre of the country. Washington accuses Iran of seeking nuclear arms, a charge Teheran denies.

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why wouldnt we use them?

er....sovereign airspace?


i bet you would be hootin' & hollerin' if there were drones over the US

Originally Posted by chewie_nz

er....sovereign airspace?

Yeah well, we invade a lot of things. :P

Fairly out of course I'd say if it came from a mission in Iraq... They risk to escalate the entire situation in the Persian Gulf region for the peepshows of Iran...

But that is perhaps what the US wants in the long term - to start another war?

The article says they can't identify where it came from. I would doubt that a drone for a large surveillance area would be practical when we already can count their shirt buttons with varied orbit satellites.

er....sovereign airspace?


i bet you would be hootin' & hollerin' if there were drones over the US

Id be angry, but then again they have all the right to be angry and if we have a drone in there terriotry shoot the darn thing down, i dont care. Just as we would a drone over our terriotory.

COuld be the UN for all we know. Kofi likes to poke his head into places that he shouldn't be looking into.

Arent there specific windows ot time in which satellites can view a region?

I agree, even if the drone was off course, they risk escalation.

So who controls it now? Do we have it back, or do they have it. Like that incident with the Chinese, where they had our plane? Will they reverse-engineer it?

Originally Posted by Spartacus

Arent there specific windows ot time in which satellites can view a region?

Not anymore, there are enough in orbit that almost anyplace can be switched from sattelite to sattelite and never miss a frame. Different Countries also have sattelites in orbit. Most share information.