Beagle,

You don't know how close to the truth you are.

Now there's a plan.

Take something that doesn't work, reverse engineer it, fly it . . . ;)

The Iranians have released footage claimed to have been recovered from the RQ-170.

I recognise that dispersal and it's not in Iran!

I suspect they have either stolen some footage from some idiot that has put on the internet (or stored it on their personal laptop!) or they have tapped into the Full Motion Video feed (which should have been encrypted). Or it could be some footage from the hold-up memory on the aircraft (which should have been zeroised) - that's a good lesson if it hasn't been!

Either way, they did not have control of the aircraft. It is not the feed from the satellite as it is line-of-sight. There's also no parametric data on the feed, so I wonder if they picked up a faulty feed from the aircraft?

Not exactly earth shattering and it could have been the ROVER feed from a targetting pod from a manned aircraft just as easily.

iRaven

I agree iRaven. Hard to tell from such footage. It could well be stock UAV footage previously released by the Coalition? Anyone recognise it?

See from 01:32. Footage of the Iranians recovering the RQ-170.

02:22 shows more footage claimed recovered from the RQ-170.



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Partial translation of documentary on the capture:

FASCINATING: IRANIAN RQ-170 DOCUMENTARY PARTIALLY TRANSLATED | aviationintel

They seem to be manipulating the facts recently

Iranian news agency digitally alters Michelle Obama's Oscars gown to make it look more modest | Mail Online