Sounds like a couple of Global Hawks got downed by the Iranian Strella's.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8236073/Iran-claims-to-have-shot-down-US-drones.html

The hilljack MF's as usual denied their shot down drones, but here's a confirmation from the horses mouth:

http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30190953&SRCH=1

Funnily enough the Russians wanted them shot down hulks like conniving little bitches........

He, however, denied knowing about any offer by the Russians for purchase of such airplanes.

No they didn't.

The reporter speculated they might want them and asked if any offer had been made to which the above reply makes clear they didn't.

And congrats to the Iranians. Hope they find the contents useful.

GarryB wrote:

He, however, denied knowing about any offer by the Russians for purchase of such airplanes.

No they didn't.

The reporter speculated they might want them and asked if any offer had been made to which the above reply makes clear they didn't.

And congrats to the Iranians. Hope they find the contents useful.

The contents are shit Garry! These hilljack MF's couldn't figure out what blew them out of the sky....Thank you Russia for supplying nice strella's.

Bhuwahahahahaaaa

The U.S forces are a bunch of clowns about to get it in the fun-hole.......if you know whats goin down in Iraq and the gulf. The U.S. is welcome to stay in Iraq just so as long as it stays in front of the Saudi Suicide bombers and takes the brunt of the attacks, and fights off the assorted types from Jordan, Sunni Syrians and Saudi youth while we cajole the Iraqi's into our islamic bullshit.....

Iran rules Iraq right now, and no one dares utter a word from their fun-hole.

Russia didn't supply Iran with Strelas, Iran got them from China.

And their ATGM is a copy of a TOW so they didn't get those from Russia either.

If Iran shot down US drones... where are the photos of wreckage? They would be running that footage from here to next year. Never happened.

The Serbs were known to have shot down at least 50 UAVs in the Kosovo conflict (some figures given by the Serbs confuse UAVs with real aircraft), but not all resulted in pictures of recovered wreckage. When shot down over water or very rough country it can take weeks to find wreckage if you find it at all.

Here in Tiny NZ light aircraft that have crashed in bush have been searched for and not found till years later when someone comes across the wreckage by accident.

Having said that, I too would prefer to see footage of the UAV before I considered it real... Iran has a propaganda department that tells lies just like any western government.

The Serbs got pictures of a couple dozen downed drones... not to mention that famous footage of the F-117 wreckage. If Iran has it, they would propaganda it for all it is worth.

The Serbs got pictures of a couple dozen downed drones... not to mention that famous footage of the F-117 wreckage. If Iran has it, they would propaganda it for all it is worth.

I totally agree, but when 50 are shot down then the chance of finding a few dozen becomes easier. I read that NATO even tracked a few helos that were shadowing their UAVs and it turned out the Serbs were flying the helos along side the UAVs and simply the door gunners with PKMs were hosing the UAVs out of the sky.

Simple, cheap and effective.

Makes me think for the Russian problem with the Georgian UAVs before the conflict where Iglas couldn't get an IR lock on the tiny, high targets and the ZU-23s didn't have the altitude reach that a good solution could be just a cheap simple UAV of their own with a PKM mounted on it with no tracer ammo (that would alert the UAV it was under attack). It would be fun... you could take turns flying up and getting in behind the enemy UAV and shooting it down. You could even make the UAV a triplane and pretend you are the red baron or something... Much cheaper than firing off a BUK missile or flying a Mig-29 in and shooting it down with an R-27R or R-73.

Don't get me wrong, I don't trust the Iranians without proof, but I don't trust the Americans either.