The Spoils of Happenstance
What has become a serendipitous occasion for one party represents a hollowing out of a valuable technological formula for another. What wouldn't Russia and China give to take possession of the kind of science that results in American stealth technology? They would not surrender their support of the ambitions of Iran, for one. Since one never knows...And possession being nine-tenths of the law of acquisition, Iran is now in possession of a truly valuable technology by which it has been afforded the opportunity to repay its benefactors for their patience and forbearance, supporting its own move toward achieving its own technological and scientific breakthroughs. With a little bit of help from its friends, Iran has come far.
Mind, it was a bit of a downer when its scientists were present in North Korea for the spectacular send off of the last ballistic missile purportedly carrying an information satellite which fizzled into the sea, and for that it's back to the drawing board in eager anticipation of a new and vastly improved rocket system that will indeed result in all the bragging rights North Korea indulged in precipitously.
For the time being, Iran, China and Russia are more than satisfied with the chance encounter with an American spy drone that has favoured them with access to a technology that had, until then, evaded them. To prove Tehran's contention that it had succeeded in decoding hard drives and databases on the RQ-170 Sentinel, Brigadier-general Amir Ali Hajizadeh, illustrious commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace forces was pleased to give details of the spy drone's operational history.
American technicians will not go out of their way, needless to say, to helpfully verify that the accessing of records was successful, thus validating Tehran's claims to have gained access to this very top secret technology. But the brigadier-general's gloating presentation of the drone's history, inclusive of its flight over Osama bin Laden's Pakistan hideout sounds genuine enough.
That hard-working piece of equipment had also gone into the shop to have its sensors tested near Los Angeles after having suffered a technical break-down of sorts. "Had we not accessed the plane's software and hard discs, we wouldn't have been able to achieve these facts", prodded the brigadier-general, delightedly poking the Great Satan in its bloodshot eye.
Its hard-working and valuable "eye in the sky" whose advanced sensors have sent back impressive amounts of imagery and electronic intercepts are now in the hands of those who fully intend to clone its secrets, deciphering the formulae that have made it such a resounding success in spy management in the 21st Century.
It did represent rather a misfortune that the drone settled intact inside Iran's border.
Speculation that it might have been programmed to self-destruct, shielding its secret technological advances from the possibility of falling into exultant alien hands whose own level of expertise might be sufficient to make sense of the data encryption appears to have been wishful thinking.
Ah, more's the pity.
Labels: China, Iran, Political Realities, Russia, Security, Technology
posted by Pieface @ Monday, April 23, 2012
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