http://news.sky.com/story/1048911/ir...tured-us-drone
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the actual video is shown on the rt website not on other news channelsIran's state TV has broadcast footage allegedly extracted from the advanced CIA spy drone captured in 2011, the latest in a flurry of moves from Iranian authorities meant to underline the nation's purported military and technological advances. Iran has long claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel, seized in December 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern border with Afghanistan, and that it's capable of launching its own production line for the unmanned aircraft.
After initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed the Sentinel had been monitoring Iran's military and nuclear facilities. Washington asked for it back but Iran refused, and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.
Iran captured the US special stealth drone about a year ago and now have released onboard footage that the drone had recorded. I would suspect this video footage would be encrypted so an enemy could not glean intelligence from the drone. Or it wouldnt store any information, but stream it through an uplink. But it seems Iranian scientists have managed to crack it open.The video aired late Wednesday on Iranian television shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be a U.S. drone base and Kandahar, Afghanistan. The TV also showed images purported to be the Sentinel landing at a base in eastern Iran, but it was unclear if that footage meant to depict the moment of the drone's seizure.
It wasn't possible to immediately identify the air strip where the aircraft is seen landing, or what type of aircraft it was that captured the video. At least one other aircraft, resembling the commonly used U.S. Predator drone, can be seen near what appears to be a temporary hangar in the background as the camera pans across the air base.
In addition, the TV also showed images of an Iranian helicopter transporting the drone, as well as its disassembled parts being carried on a trailer.
In another part of the video, the chief of the Revolutionary Guard's airspace division, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said that only after capturing the drone, Iran realized it "belongs to the CIA."
"We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down," said Hajizadeh.
He described the Sentinel's capture as a huge scoop for Iran, saying that at the time, Tehran did not rule out a possible punitive U.S. air strike over the drone.
It adds further evidence that the Iranians actually spoofed this drone as reported in Wired and Time magazine and captured it intact.
Is it possible for the Iranians to have hacked into the American drone's systems? We had Zionists on these boards who told us not to worry a year back, and that everything is fine, and that we should all pray and send more money to Israel, but these reports are disturbing. I am disturbed. Will Jesus come back now?
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."
—Acts 1:9-11






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