According to “CalebS” a very well informed source of this website who has already provided valuable advice to study the high resolution pictures released yesterday by the Iranian Republic Guard, the one marked with the green arrow in the Google Maps screenshot below is (or at least could be) the location where the captured RQ-170 was (and maybe still is) hidden.
It should be a building next to school, a countermeasure used to avoid an air strike aimed at destroying the (once) secret stealthy robot.
Since I can’t be sure it is the actual place where the “Beast of Kandahar” was photographed (so “speculation on!”), I have to trust what CalebS says. I have asked him to explain how I can be sure the building located at 35.270443,57.971007 is the right place based on a purely qualitative analysis because the only thing I can assess by looking at that building is that it is next to a school and located outside the town where the drone was supposedly lost.
Here’s what CalebS explained:
“It has the same construction characteristics that I would expect from seeing the photos of the inside. Plus take the angle of the sun in the photo and it looks like the building is facing the correct direction. Then look at the shadow of the building and it appears to be tall enough. Then see where the side door entrance is and that could be a path… Next look at the size of the building, seems to be the exact same size when measured using google maps satellite images.”
The description was not intended to prove anything. Since the source could not provide any photo or any other evidence that the school was the right place, he gave me some details that could help me in the verification process.
What’s your opinion?
Stay tuned.
This, along with all the previous articles on the Sentinel drone in Iran, can be found at the following link: https://theaviationist.com/category/captured-stealth-drone/
David please check out this extensive image analysis by Aviation Intel:
http://aviationintel.com/?p=4322
Wow.
Folks, gym architecture is reused in every country. One does not build individual architectured gyms unless one has Olympic Games. There is one standard architecture and every school built in a certain time period will have the same gym architecture. (That is likely also a reason why they have chosen such a location.)
Sure.
Indeed, the question is: do you trust the source? Otherwise, any school could be suitable and any search could bring you to similar buildings
I think you should take a look at this, makes a lot of sense, you guys are once again on the same trail! Keep up the great work!:
http://aviationintel.com/?p=4425
holy shit!
cmon you think that was a school?
iran that can land rq 170 cant hide it? please…
Who said they landed it? They were able to recover it from the crash site but I don’t think they were able to take control of the drone.
looks like someone “bombed” that place already? what are those craters stretching north-east of that building? mini-volcanoes?
I didn’t notice those craters before. However, I don’t think they would miss the target by such distance with either Tomahawk, JDAMs or LGBs….
And the aerial photo is surely several years old. But I wondered too.
Btw: my earlier expressed scepticism about the building being the right one, relates to the arguments mentioned. If the source has some first hand knowledge of the building, that would weigh in a lot (not asking).
Let me clear this thing better:
The description was not intended to prove anything. Since the source could not provide any photo or any other evidence that the school was the right place, he gave me some details that could help me in the verification process.