Iran unveils new UCAV modeled on captured U.S. RQ-170 stealth drone
Iran has unveiled a new UCAV based on the captured American RQ-170 stealth drone. On Oct. 1, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new combat unmanned aerial vehicle…
Satellite caught a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone on the ground at Creech AFB
One of our readers has spotted something interesting in a satellite image Although Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) have operated from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, for…
Previously unknown details about Iranian F-4, F-5, Su-24 and UAVs involvement in air strikes on ISIS targets in Iraq
All you need to know about the Iranian involvement in the air strikes against ISIS in Iraq. Al Jazeera footage aired a few days ago exposed an IRIAF F-4 Phantom…
Iran releases first (somehow suspicious) video of its RQ-170 stealth drone copy in flight
Eventually, a video allegedly showing the copy of Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) drone manufactured by reverse-engineering of U.S. Sentinel drone captured in December 2011 was released.…
Iran has flown its version of the captured U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone modified to bomb US Navy warships
Although footage has yet to be released, Tehran claims a domestically modified RQ-170 Sentinel has already made its maiden flight. Update Nov. 12, 2014: a video has been released. Click…
Huge RQ-4 Global Hawk drone arrives in Japan for the first time ever
For the first time ever, a huge Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk drone touched down in Japan. On May 4, the first U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted…
Iran unveils reverse-engineered version of captured U.S. RQ-170 stealth drone
Tehran has just unveiled an indigenous version of the US RQ-170 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) captured in December 2011. During a ceremony held at Tehran on May 11, Iran unveiled…
A U.S. Apache attack helicopter appears in China. Did they clone it?
Images have surfaced on the Chinese Internet of what seems to be an actual AH-64D Apache or a real-size copy of the world's most famous attack chopper. The helicopter, on…
Iran will soon display upgraded copy of the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone
In February 2013, a video, aired by an Iranian TV proved that Iran had accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December 2011.…
Mystery Flying Wing Drone spotted at Palmdale Air Force Plant 42
Taken from a pilot passing through Palmdale airfield last year, the photo in this post was published by Tyler Rogoway on his Aviationintel.com website. It shows what appears to be…
New photo shows that China has really copied the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone
The following image, grabbed by Chinese forums, is circulating on the Internet. Image source: http://hobbyshanghai.com.cn/ It allegedly shows a series of brand new UAVs (unamanned aerial vehicles) one of those…
Iran releases decoded footage from captured U.S stealthy RQ-170 drone
Iran has just released footage that proves it has, if not literally decoded, at least accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December…
If Iran has decoded all data in the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone it’s no big deal
In the last of a series of similar claims, a senior Iranian commander announced that Tehran has just extracted all the data stored in the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone which…
Iran shows U.S. stealth drone captured last year
Dating back to Oct. 10, 2012, the following report (brought to my attention by Giuliano Ranieri - thanks!), aired by Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) and made available on Youtube by the…
Iran’s new spy drone is an Israeli Hermes 450/Watchkeeper clone. Capable of carrying missiles.
It looks like Iran's new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), disclosed by recent pictures and, more in details, by the footage recently aired by Press TV, has nothing to do with…
Iran's next generation fighter jet testbed unveiled (and it looks like an F-5 attached to a Tupolev 154)
On Aug. 21, the first avionics and radar testbed for what it's thought to be the Saeqeh V fighter jet, made a sudden appearance on the images taken during the…
Chinese delegation currently in Iran to copy the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in 2011.
According to the information being spread by Chinese Defense forums, a group of 17 Chinese expert would have recently arrived in Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect…
Photo: Iran's brand new drones (including an Israeli UAV clone) exposed during recent wargames.
Some interesting screenshots, taken from a documentary about the Great Prophet 7 exercise held in Iran last week and sent to me by some visitors of the blog, expose several…
Possibly unknown/damaged drone spotted at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Program Facility (on the same day Iran captured a U.S. stealthy RQ-170)
If you point your Google Earth client towards Palmdale, California, you will find a very interesting imagery signature at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Program Facility. Widely known as "Skunk Works"…
‘Operation Delawar’: When An Entire U.S. Army Airborne Brigade, Two F-100 Squadrons Deployed To Iran
In 1964, the U.S. and Iranian military "learned how to work together as a combined joint team involved in a common enterprise". "Operation Delawar" is an episode of The Big…
Photo: RQ-7 Bravo drone launched at night from Kandahar (as it can't fly much on hot days).
The following AP photo shows an RQ-7 Bravo UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) being prepared for launch at Forward Operating Base Pasab, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. It is particularly interesting because…
Middle East Cyber War: Revenge Of The Drones
In the same hours in which I was publishing my post on Cyber Weapons, news agencies all around the world have begun to release (few) details about a new alleged…
Iran claims it has decoded the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Drone Intel but provides unsubstantiated evidence to prove it.
Iran has decoded the U.S. stealthy drone intel? What? oh, umm...yeah...sure According to a FARS News Agency article published on Apr. 22, Iran has just finished deconding the intelligence gathering…
[Updated] U.S. Stealthy RQ-170 model on display at Tehran in Feb.11 Rallies. With extracted landing gear.
On Feb.11, a model of the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured on Dec. 4, 2011, was displayed at Tehran during the pro-government rallies marking the 33rd anniversary of the victory…
Size, position and orientation of the captured U.S. stealth drone in Iran: an architect's analysis
Many speculations and very few known facts surround the mysterious capture of the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone in Iran. While the U.S. claim that the robot was lost as…
Captured U.S. stealthy drone in Iran: the simplest solution solves the mystery
The solution to the mystery of the capture of the U.S. (once) most secret drone could be much simpler than everyone has speculated so far. Today's post on the topic…
Unknown hatch on captured U.S. stealth drone raises questions
The amout of contribution I receive each time I publish a blog post on the stealth drone now part of Iran's asset is amazing. For instance, yesterday, few minutes after…
How many U.S. stealthy drones were actually lost in Iran? New theories about the "downed" RQ-170 surface
Iran will clone and maybe improve the U.S. RQ-170 drone captured on Dec. 4, during a surveillance mission inside the Iranian airspace. One of the few certain facts is that…
Captured U.S. stealth drone: let's analyze the latest pictures. Real robot with few foam parts? Last hope: a trojan horse
As some U-2 spyplanes are landing in RAF Fairford on their way to some Middle East forward operating base (to undertake some reconnaissance missions over Iran, replacing the RQ-170 drone?),…
Breaking: Iran news agency releases first images of captured U.S. stealthy drone
Here they are. The first images released by an Iran news agency of what should be the U.S. RQ-170 drone crash landed in Iran on Sunday. Noteworthy, the drone wears…
