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A report by the Islamic Republic News Agency this weekend raised eyebrows, as it appeared to claim that Iranˈs Revolutionary Guard Corps had managed to hack and down a foreign spy drone.
“A foreign spy drone was hacked outside the field of Payambar-e Azam 8 wargames on Saturday,” reporters were told.
The official FARS news agency told a similar story, adding that the revolutionary guard were in possession of pictures taken by the drone and hoped to release them to the world’s media.
IRGC Hunts Alien UAV over Wargame Zone
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced that it has hunted an alien Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) after the drone neared the IRGC's current wargames zone in Southern Iran."On the first day of Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8) wargames, the IRGC's electronic warfare systems detected signals showing that alien drones were trying to enter the country (airspace)," Spokesman of the Wargames General Hamid Sarkheili told reporters on Saturday evening.
"Then our experts could bring down an alien drone over the wargames zone," he added.
Sarkheili said the IRGC is now in possession of the pictures taken by the drone and will release them if Okayed by the country's senior commanders.
However, you shouldn’t be too quick to take these headlines at face value.
Because, as a corrected Reuters report makes clear, the downed enemy spy drone was hypothetical – a real drone was not hacked and brought down by Iranian forces.
In short, it was all part of Iran’s war games, and the media were mislead by the testosterone-fueled bravado of those taking part.
That’s not to say, of course, that real drones cannot be hijacked by hackers.
Last year, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin hacked and hijacked a drone in front of a group of dismayed Department of Homeland Security officials who had dared them $1,000 to do it.
UAV image, courtesy of Shutterstock.
Correction: You can never trust Iran and the media.
-Lied about their new fighter jet
-Lied about them already being nuclear capable
-Lied about how the sanctions weren't affecting them much earlier on
-Lied about how they managed to down a drone
i agree, constant lies from iran. the next time you see them say they will meet for talks or allow reasonable access to their nuke deal, just wait a little while and they will not allow the access…just trying to gain time with their lies.
so what about US?There is no difference between US and Iran..Iran just do what they have to do to show their enemies what they capable of,don’t put blame on one side only…
Mind you, Iran DID capture a US drone before, and so far there has been no explanation on how they did it… http://theaviationist.com/tag/beast-of-kandahar/
I'm also not sure what would be the point of releasing to the public all the photos the drone took. That's what whoever sent the drone wanted, right?
what part of HYPOTHETICAL did you not read? ! ! !
From another article:
"University of Texas at Austin hacked and hijacked a drone in front of the dismayed Department of Homeland Security officials who had dared them $1,000 to do it."
I would be watching for elevated levels of admissions of Iranian students at the University of Texas at Austin.
Looks like this real drone, which was downed by Iran in Dec last year.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1…
after seeing all happened around us, i trust both parties can lie
"In short, it was all part of Iran's war games, and the media were mislead by the testosterone-fueled bravado of those taking part."
I think you mean "misled", Graham. But I understand how easy it is to make such a typographical error without realizing it. We're bombarded daily with the misspelling of "led" (the past tense of the verb "to lead") as "lead" (atomic symbol Pb, atomic number 82).
It's pandemic on the Intertubes. I'm not sure why. "Led" is a perfectly good word in every English-speaking country, and is unworthy of such neglect.
Would be more believable if China made such claims.