"There's no good reason to send a drone into Iranian airspace in the first place when you have things like NRO's Keyhole satellites to get imagery for you" The

"There's no good reason to send a drone into Iranian airspace in the first place when you have things like NRO's Keyhole satellites to get imagery for you" There are LOTS of reasons to send drones to other countries airspace. Satellites have lots of constraints, they fly at a given time over an specific region, and very high, you cant make them stationary like drones(unless the country is in the equator, or you you use very oblique angles that make you lose resolution). Drones are thousand of times more flexible, and they fly way lower than a satellite.