Are We Fcked?

[Coz]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05...ssing-us-drone/

 

Iran is in possession of a RQ-170 Sentinel drone that went missing over the Islamic Republic, U.S. military sources told Fox News on Monday.

The Sentinel is the same kind of stealth high tech drone that was used to monitor the compound during the raid that killed Usama bin Laden in Pakistan, the sources said.

The sources confirmed the Iranians have the drone, however, they did not say that the Iranians shot down the spy plane, as was reported by Iran's official IRNA news agency.

"An advanced RQ-170 unmanned American spy plane was shot down by Iran's armed forces. It suffered minor damage and is now in possession of Iran's armed forces," IRNA quoted an unidentified Iranian military official saying Sunday. The official also warned of strong and crushing response to any violations of the country's airspace by American drone aircraft.

Earlier, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan issued a statement saying the aircraft may have been a drone that operators lost contact with last week while it was flying a mission over neighboring western Afghanistan.

A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the incident, said the U.S. had "absolutely no indication" that the drone was shot down.

Iran is locked in a dispute with the U.S. and its allies over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, which the West believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and that it seeks to generate electricity and produce isotopes to treat medical patients.

The RQ-170 Sentinel is made by Lockheed Martin and is equipped with stealth technology.

Iran said in January that two pilotless spy planes it had shot down over its airspace were operated by the United States and offered to put them on public display. In July, Iranian military officials showed Russian experts several U.S. drones they said were shot down in recent years.

Also in July, Iranian lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari said Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that was trying to gather information on an underground uranium enrichment site.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., told Fox News on Monday that "it's less likely than not" that the Iranians did not shoot down the plane, but it had a mechanical or computer malfunction that caused it to go down "and then used it for propaganda purposes."

"In the past, they have claimed these shoot-downs and been unable to produce any pieces of the drone, and currently, they have not exhibited any piece of the RQ-170 yet," he said.

 

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05.../#ixzz1fgN2zeTJ

 

You think any repercussions from this?

[AndyIbeat]

A lot of bureaucratic bull****

[Father Justin]

Yeah, Iran is going to kill us all!!@@@@

[Furl]

If any *********** countries even launched a bean at us Americans we'd **** them up TOUGH. They know what's good with is, I don't what they're willing to do to the 4nr's, though.

[Oh Garrett]

fox news oh boy!

[Pur3_Kide]

I mean Iran will be the 9999th country to own that thing. Not like they will be using it in an offensive way, just as protection so U.S wont **** em over like they ****** Irak, Afghanistan and shít loads of other countries that I don't know of.

 

TBH, I understand why Iran is investing so much in this military stuff. Watching your neighbour countries going to ****. I would prepare for the worse too.

[Coz]

I lol at ppl saying "LOl Fox News"

 

I went to CNN and FOX both had articles about it, CNN was a video so I posted FOX News one

[Keith]

We were ****** when we voted Obama into office.

[Oh Garrett]

I lol at ppl saying "LOl Fox News"

 

I went to CNN and FOX both had articles about it, CNN was a video so I posted FOX News one

 

 

i'm the only one who said fox news oh boy. so just reply to me. And the difference between those two is how they present the story. This piece of technology is available to many many other countries, not just iran and is not in any way a threat. Yet both you and fox try to spin it as a threat and play on peoples fears for ratings, or in your case... well idk what you get. Post count?

[Coz]

I lol at ppl saying "LOl Fox News"

 

I went to CNN and FOX both had articles about it, CNN was a video so I posted FOX News one

 

 

i'm the only one who said fox news oh boy. so just reply to me. And the difference between those two is how they present the story. This piece of technology is available to many many other countries, not just iran and is not in any way a threat. Yet both you and fox try to spin it as a threat and play on peoples fears for ratings, or in your case... well idk what you get. Post count?

 

O yeah you read me like a book, this is actually a plot to get as many 13 yr olds to hate democrats and then prey on them in order to bring them to the republican side. Are you so narrow minded you think I did this to spin it off as a threat? Go read a book or watch some news, Iran is unstable, will this lead to anything? The technology is not the same throughout the world or they would have the same **** we do already. What about the information on the spy plane? Clearly you don't understand the "possible" repercussion of this. If you wish to try and act educated, please read something useful. I watched both CNN/FOX news info on situation feel free to comment again when you have as well. :thumbsup:

[Dev]

alalalalalh! boom!

[Ahd f t w]

U.S. pussys.

[Sirswat]

US government is more corrupt than you think.

[Anthoni]

Oh, big deal.

[K0edinator]

Cool, see if they have the balls to use it