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"Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along." It might have been a largely Russian operation using
by GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
"Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along."
It might have been a largely Russian operation using the Iranians as a proxy.
- plugger 15y agoI think this is probably the most plausible explanation. Apparently six weeks ago the Iranians took delivery of the Russian's latest Avtobaza ground-based electronic intelligence and jamming system. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/avtobaza-irans-weapon-in-rq-17.html http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/avtoba... If that's the case it's a win win for both Iran and Russia. Iranians get the press coup of poking the US's eye whilst Russia walks away with an RQ-170 (to reverse engineer and resell to the Iranians of course).