An unmanned drone aircraft crashed into the mountains of central Iran on Sunday, according to a Reuters news service report out of Tehran. The aircraft’s origin has not been determined yet by Iranian officials, but we bet they have some pretty strong suspicions. Iranian media have claimed that US has been flying surveillance missions over Iran ever since American forces began using UAVs over Afghanistan. They say the US is using them to spy on Iran’s nuclear efforts, mostly located (we think) in the central region.
Today’s armament maintainers are tasked with performing flightline (O-Level) maintenance with an assortment of legacy test sets that greatly limit the ability to quickly and efficiently verify armament system readiness, diagnose failures, and ultimately return the aircraft to full mission...