Iranian military leaders announced Thursday that they had successfully reproduced and improved a U.S. sentinel spy drone, one of which was downed and captured in Iranian territory in 2011.Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Aerospace Force, announced that Iran is calling its own version of the spy drone, "Simorgh," which is Iranian for "Phoenix," according to the country's state controlled media.
Iran's version of the drone "was manufactured through reverse engineering of the U.S. drone, which was tracked and hunted down in Iran late in 2011, and has been equipped by the IRGC with bombing capability," according to Fars News Agency.
Remember when our government told us that this drone was so delicately balanced that there was no room for an explosive detonator on it to mitigate the damage if this thing fell into enemy hands? Remember when I called BS on that? Well, it seems I was right. Although the Iranians did sort of cheat by putting the explosive on the outside, their primitive engineering team managed to find a way whereas our far more advanced team supposedly could not. I blame the idiots making the decisions.
The Iranian media outlet further claimed that "Iran has downed many other U.S. drones as well, and they have always started reproducing them immediately after conducting reverse engineering."
Golly, I sorta doubt that. But maybe I missed something in the news.