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August 29th, 2005
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| Banned  | Post; Unidentified drone crashes in IranUnidentified 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. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...iddleeast&col= |
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August 29th, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | why wouldnt we use them?
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August 29th, 2005
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| Banned | er....sovereign airspace? i bet you would be hootin' & hollerin' if there were drones over the US |
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August 29th, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Quote:
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August 29th, 2005
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| Forum Barbecuer | 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?
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August 31st, 2005
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| Nuclear Duck Hunter  | 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.
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August 31st, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Quote:
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. | |
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September 1st, 2005
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| 100% Space Shuttle Door Gunner | COuld be the UN for all we know. Kofi likes to poke his head into places that he shouldn't be looking into.
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September 1st, 2005
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| Primus Pilus | 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?
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September 1st, 2005
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