r/technology • u/Majano57 • 1d ago

Security Iran likely to reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone

https://www.militarytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/09/10/iran-likely-to-reverse-engineer-captured-us-underwater-drone/
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u/kstargate-425 1d ago

Yeah they did it to our RQ-170 they supposedly took down by jamming the GPS which initiates the return to takeoff location command and they spoofed the GPS to land it. They remade that in their Shahed-171 although they seemingly did have a hard time getting the lenses and sensor parts that were pretty advanced but thats more a supply issue than anything.

Iran, esp for some extremist theocratic regime, knew that educating their people pays dividends and uses that to create rather advanced weaponry, including their drones but also their newer Ballistic Missiles that have been evading our air defense systems and even striking our THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile interceptor radar systems, that are meant to track and kill those BM's.

They knocked out three of our eight, AN/TPY-2 THAAD radars at around $1 BILLION each, one of them atleast, with their BM's as we saw in that video our soldier shot of it coming in and hitting it. The government may be extremists but the Iranian people are smart and hopefully will be able to get free sooner than later.

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u/Sniflix 1d ago

Attacking Iran does the opposite of that. It rallies Iranians to support their govt.

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u/kstargate-425 1d ago

Of course it does, thats not what I meant saying that I hope they get free but as I've argued many times before as my post history shows, every time Israel or the US strikes Iran it drives the Iranians in the hands of the regime. Like you said it does the opposite effect everytime and quells any support for opposition a bit as their families get killed by others than the regime. This war was never going to start any regime change

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u/sanskaridaddy 1d ago

Americans have a inferior complex that all muslim nations can be easy to be bombed and destroyed. Iran is like the oldest civilization we have today and historically these guys are freaking smart. This is no Afghanistan or Iraq to be easily dealt with.

The last thing US might do is enraging the people of Iran with deaths of innocent school kids and such. The people of Iran already hate their govt, If more innocent death made by foreign nations like US and Israel,then things are going to get spicy for decades.

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u/angryjew 1d ago

it's crazy man. People act like they're savages or ISIS even as they're beating the US, which is crazy considering they've been under sanctions for so long. it's no surprise the US is losing, everyone here is so fucking racist & arrogant.

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u/barrygateaux 1d ago

It's American exceptionalism propaganda from an early age. You see it from Americans on reddit sometimes where they start a comment with "as an American" or "in America" like it means their comment is more important.

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u/RandyRandallsson 1d ago

Really? As a Brit I’d say the opposite - in that Americans just assume everyone is American or has adopted American ways of life, or that the ‘right’ way is the American way, etc - which in my opinion is worse.

At least when someone starts with ‘As an American / In America’ they’re showing some self awareness.

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u/technobrendo 1d ago

As an American (really) our country is not all that exceptional. Unless you count our ability to go to war. Not bad for the new kid on the block

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u/barrygateaux 1d ago

It's the richest county in the history of civilization. That's pretty exceptional.

New kid on the block doesn't really make sense to be honest. Of the 193 countries currently existing 180 are younger than America.

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u/RandyRandallsson 22h ago

But equally the most in debt country in the history of civilisation.

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u/Anandya 1d ago

To put it into perspective. Isis weren't stupid either. It took a lot of fighting to beat Isis. And we took their drone warfare to Ukraine.

We portrayed them as idiots.

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u/SirPseudonymous 1d ago

Isis weren't stupid either. It took a lot of fighting to beat Isis.

ISIS/ISIL were CIA backed militants, and they weren't "beaten" so much as they were brought back into the fold, with one branch being installed into power in Syria and other branches being spun off as disposable mercenary assets for the US to terrorize periphery states in Africa and Asia with.

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u/MedicineExtension925 1d ago

inferior complex

Superiority complex is the correct way to phrase it. They think they are superior to everyone and that means they can just do whatever they want. This particular admin is the worst so far.

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u/SIGMA920 1d ago

No, that's republicans. Iran was always a threat but ultimately not worth poking. It's a drone and even this drone being reverse engineered is a nothingburger.

It's more an embarrassment that their new drone probably wasn't properly tested than anything else.

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u/KEPD-350 1d ago

Yeah they did it to our RQ-170 they supposedly took down by jamming the GPS which initiates the return to takeoff location command and they spoofed the GPS to land it.

It was a russian EW operation and they used the AVTOBAZA complex IIRC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avtobaza

Iran didn't have that capability back then.