Iran ‘hacks software of US spy drone’

The Tehran-based Mehr news agency added that Iran had “started
manufacturing models of the captured US spy plane”, but gave no more
details.

The aircraft, which is supposedly the CIA’s unseen “eye in the sky”,
can carry a payload of advanced sensors capable of beaming back a trove of
imagery and electronic intercepts.

Analysts believe Iran, China and Russia are also particularly interested in
the stealth technology and wing coating materials which allow it to escape
radar detection.

The
unarmed drone was paraded on Iranian state television
, apparently
looking intact, after coming down 140 miles inside Iran’s eastern border in
December.

Tehran said it had been brought down by electronic attack after taking off
from an American base inside Afghanistan.

America acknowledged the loss of the aircraft, but said it was more likely to
have crashed through malfunction.

Analysts suggested at the time that data encryption, self-destruct mechanisms
and damage sustained during the crash could all make it impossible for
Iranian engineers to use or reverse engineer the technology.

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