Iran Cracks US Stealth Spy Drone's Secrets, Shows Proof [Iran]
Jesus Diaz
Iran claims that their engineers have reverse engineered the secrets of the American stealth spy drone RQ-170 Sentinel that went down in their territory last December. To prove it, they have made public some of the encrypted information stored in the plane. If confirmed, it's very bad news for the United States. More »


source: gizmodo.com
23 Apr 2012
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