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Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed on Sunday that an Israeli stealth drone had been brought down above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.
The Neuron, a jet-engine stealth drone developed by France's Dassault Aviation and partners including Italy's Alenia, will be about the size of the French manned Mirage fighter.Small drones, by contrast, cost just tens of thousands of dollars.
Drones have been much in the news lately, what with Iran's claim to have brought down a Sentinel stealth drone operated by the CIA, and the crash of a Reaper drone, deployed to combat piracy off east Africa.
The Pentagon announced in late 2009 that it was testing a bat-winged stealth drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, in Afghanistan, and it was quickly dubbed the Beast of Kandahar.
And drones, because they are cheap and don't need a human pilot, lower the bar for aggressive behavior on the part of America's military leaders — as they will for China's navy, as soon as it makes its own inevitable foray into drone capabilities (indeed, there were reports last week that China was preparing its own stealth drone for flight tests).
While Iran's government has so far refused an American request to return the C.I.A. stealth drone it captured last month, on Tuesday, an Iranian company that is manufacturing miniature replicas of the drone in several colors offered to send President Obama a pink one.
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There was no sign this year of Anjian, or the Dark Sword, part of a rumored new generation of Chinese stealth drones.
Above all, they must be asking: does Iran really have the capacity to intercept transmissions between our stealth drones and our controllers on the ground?
It was also a time when people actually spoke in person to each other -- i.e., gossiped about film stars, and other public figures -- because there was so much that was being kept away from them by the mainstream media (although often pricked at, like a scabby wound, by the stealth drones at Confidential magazine).
This one, they write, will take place in cyberspace and even outer space, where trained soldiers will do battle not only with one another, but with teenage hackers and stealth drones and other weapons—hands-free, eye-tracking virtual reality shooters and tiny military robots, for instance that seem right out of a fever dream.
Meanwhile, online photographs reveal a stealth combat drone, the Lijian, or Stealth Sword, in a runway test in May.
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