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Iranian military leaders disclosed on Thursday that their intelligence operatives had infiltrated a U.S. Army Command Center and commandeered control of several American drones flying through Syria and Iraq.

Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Aerospace Force, released information and photographic evidence that Iran claims as proof it was able to take control of several U.S. drones.

This would not be the first time Iran commandeered such sensitive technology. Tehran assumed control of a downed U.S. drone several years ago and claimed that it had siphoned both information and technical data.

"Seven to eight drones that had constant flights over Syria and Iraq were brought under our control and their intel was monitored by us and we could gain their first-hand intel," General Hajizadeh was quoted as saying on Thursday in remarks carried in the country's state-controlled press.

Along with these comments the IRGC released footage to the Fars News Agency and other Iranian outlets that military leaders say confirms the operation.

"The footage below shows IRGC's penetration into US Army's Command Center, one of the many proofs in support of General Hajizadeh's remarks," Fars reported. "The footage shows a U.S. flying drone starts malfunctioning and makes a rough landing in a desert area 10 kilometers away from its base."

"The footage that displays the IRGC's penetration into the U.S. spy drone's intel has been recorded by an IRGC drone flying above the scene," the report claims.

U.S. military officials did not respond to Washington Free Beacon requests for comment on the matter.

Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser who closely tracks regional terror groups, told the Free Beacon that there is merit to Iran's claims.

"Iran knows it can't compete with the United States head on and so for decades it has embraced asymmetric warfare," Rubin said. "Terrorism is the major component of this, but increasingly cyber-espionage and hacking are pillars of Iranian strategy, While the Iranian media regularly exaggerates, there may be some truth to this story."

Additionally, "Iran has deployed forces into Syria and Iraq not only to beat opponents on the ground, but also to test its technology in real-world conditions," Rubin said. "Just as the U.S. and Soviet Union once used proxy battles over Syria to test each other's equipment and capabilities, Tehran today looks at Syria as a laboratory for its own military capabilities."

"If the Iranian story is true, there's a real danger: Not only because Iran regularly shares its technology with terrorists, but also because there is not a capability Iran has which Russia and China don't share," he said.

The United States armed forces could squash the Iranian military like a bug. In an all-out war, Iran would be destroyed. So, now that we have that clear, you just go on with your silly shit.

Time to change the encryption...

If I had developed the ability to hack into my enemies military infrastructure and or weapon systems do you know what the VERY first thing I would do would be?

I would STFU about it and save it for when I could use it to really inflict chaos.

Do you know what I would not do? Yell oooo oooo oooo Mr. Kotter guess what I can hack my enemies....oooo ooo ooo over here”

So either they can’t do shit, like normal or they are they are working with a full six pack but don’t have that plastic thing to hold all their cans together.

Interesting announcement from them after we announced this a little over a week ago.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...anians-charged-cyber

I was in Iraq when Iran made some of these claims previously, and in Afghanistan when they made other claims, and I've seen what they claim they captured.

Iran's claims are laughable for numerous reasons that can't be cited, but they have little credibility. None, really.

Most unmanned aircraft are not exactly "high tech," and to claim to have one and to have "siphoned" the technology is a bit like a caveman seizing a rock and claiming to have new technology.

https://www.airliners.net/phot...891/UanHqa5y%2B9ZC1l

That picture was posted about two weeks ago, of an Iranian IL76. The highest tech piece of equipment on that panel is the KLN-89 GPS nav box slapped on top of the glareshield. That box was obsolete nearly 20 years ago.

That's what's on the other side of the sandy curtain.

Its no secret that China, Russia and the Norks have been selling spoofing technology to the IRGC. We also know that every player in the MidEast, outside of Israel, is notorious for misusing, abusing and outright junking any modern technology. They may very well have brought down a few drones/UAV's, the reality is the technology is changing so fast, that whatever they can get their hands on, will already be several generations old by the time they can make any use of whatever they capture.

If they could actually do it, they wouldn't want us to know they could do it.

Maybe we deliberately let those drones get stolen so they would think they can command our drones so they would be emboldened to make an attack, so we could then retaliate, but we changed all our security codes so that we crush their military and liberate Iran.

Maybe....

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Originally posted by cslinger:
If I had developed the ability to hack into my enemies military infrastructure and or weapon systems do you know what the VERY first thing I would do would be?

I would STFU about it and save it for when I could use it to really inflict chaos.

Do you know what I would not do? Yell oooo oooo oooo Mr. Kotter guess what I can hack my enemies....oooo ooo ooo over here”

So either they can’t do shit, like normal or they are they are working with a full six pack but don’t have that plastic thing to hold all their cans together.

This is why it's bullshit. If they had the ability, they wouldn't advertise.

If they were smart, anyway. So, such that they're prattling about this, they're too dumb to keep the strategic advantage, so too likely that they're too dumb to have actually acquired it.

Can we fill a drone with hardcore gay porn and let them capture it? I want to see that on their State Media.

They also have about 80 F-14 Tomcats ( - some critical gear) of which perhaps of 1 might actually work/fly.

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Originally posted by arcwelder76:...
Can we fill a drone with hardcore gay porn and let them capture it? I want to see that on their State Media.

Slight thread drift...
After Grad school I was loaned out to the Navy for a “research project” in the Med.

We were followed constantly by a Russian fishing trawler with enough antennas to make a porcupine jealous. Anything that we jettisoned overboard was picked up and analyzed by them. On a shore leave we bought about 25 Playboys, Penhouses etc. A couple of days later we threw them along with some useless garbage overboard and of course the Russians picked them up. It was hilarious watching them open the bag through our bino’s. They waved to us....

I wonder if we occasionally let others in to infect them instead, i.e. Stuxnet.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=sBt04_1550824449

Well, one thing is for sure, it got blode up.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
They waved to us....

You see, now: That’s the way to promote the brotherhood of man (or siblinghood of humanity, if one prefers, but brothers and men would probably be more receptive to that particular method) and end war and stuff.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
They also have about 80 F-14 Tomcats ( - some critical gear) of which perhaps of 1 might actually work/fly.

Back in 1961 era I was an advisor to the 6th Iranian Inf. Div. One day while I was in Tehran I met an air force advisor at the NCO club where we were both having lunch. Hey was about 2/3 in the bag and getting deeper. Finally got him to talk about it. '

Seems that morning he had walked the flight line and discovered that a US supplied fighter was missing. It had been grounded for mechanical problems.

He asked the unit CO where the fighter was. He was told that it had been fixed and was flying.

Since he knew it was impossible to fix it because they had no parts and none had come it, he ordered it to land. On inspection he discovered that the "fix" to the high pressure oil leak to the engine was to wrap a rag around it!!! I seem to recall they were F86s.

Not saying Iran could not have hacked and gotten access, but IMO, not likely. But then they may have learned to read and write since I was there.

We were told, back then, that some 2 percent of the population could actually read and write. We visited a lot of villages out in the Kurdish area and in virtually all cases, nobody in the village could read.

One of the things the shah did that pissed off the mullahs was to start schools in many of the villages to teach the resident to read. This, of course pissed off the mullahs who made a very good living from those villages.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
I was in Iraq when Iran made some of these claims previously, and in Afghanistan when they made other claims, and I've seen what they claim they captured.

Iran's claims are laughable for numerous reasons that can't be cited, but they have little credibility. None, really.

Most unmanned aircraft are not exactly "high tech," and to claim to have one and to have "siphoned" the technology is a bit like a caveman seizing a rock and claiming to have new technology.

https://www.airliners.net/phot...891/UanHqa5y%2B9ZC1l

That picture was posted about two weeks ago, of an Iranian IL76. The highest tech piece of equipment on that panel is the KLN-89 GPS nav box slapped on top of the glareshield. That box was obsolete nearly 20 years ago.

That's what's on the other side of the sandy curtain.

Doesn't look like a KLN 89....maybe a Garmin 430 ??

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Originally posted by mike28w:

Doesn't look like a KLN 89....maybe a Garmin 430 ??

Looking at it again, maybe. It's been quite a while since I used the 430, and much longer on the KLN. Either way, very old technology (and outdated, no longer supported), especially for that class of equipment (four-engine transport turbojet aircraft), and then cobbled on top of the panel like it is, especially blocking vision, amateur hour.

If the Iranians were half as smart as they say they are, they'd have reached the moon by now.

I'd be grateful if anybody here could point me a a single scientific, medical or technological milestone development to come out of Persia/Iran in the last, oh, 2000 years.

I'm prepared to be amazed.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:...

I'd be grateful if anybody here could point me a a single scientific, medical or technological milestone development to come out of Persia/Iran in the last, oh, 2000 years.

I'm prepared to be amazed.

Well, they invented Purim. But that was about 2400 years ago, and not something they brag about...