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Drones & Iran

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Drone Iran
Drone Wars: US+allies vs. Iran claims
Iran Drone Stories collected by Alister William Macintyre US foreign policy & Iran policies have clashed, with frequent claims and counter claims. Last updated 2013 Mar 19
Version 5.2

Table of Contents Drone Iran Introduction (3 Mar 14) .................................................................................... 1 Iran controversies (3 Mar 14) ......................................................................................... 2 Drones over Iran (3 Mar 18) ............................................................................................... 3 2013+ incidents & stories (3 Mar 15) ............................................................................. 5 Hezbollah drones (2 Oct 29) ........................................................................................... 6 Macs Drone Research docs (3 Mar 14) ............................................................................. 8 Drone Research Sharing Sites (3 Mar 14) ................................................................ 11 Contacting author (2 July 10) ................................................................................... 12

Drone Iran Introduction (3 Mar 14)

I am not an anti-war activist, rather I am dismayed with some of the tactics used in war policies, high volume of innocent deaths, strategies with side-effects of creating more enemies. Except for the Cold War, most wars in modern times have come to a conclusion, so that most secrecy justified for success in the war, has come to an end, soon after the conclusion. I fear that the War on Terror, like the War on Drugs, may never come to an end, due to how it is being conducted, where some of the administrators apparently have conflicts of interest in it ever ending. Thus erosion of traditional freedoms, justified by the war, may never be reversed. I am a former trouble-shooter in midrange computer systems (bigger than a PC, smaller than a mainframe) but no longer have the stamina for that life. I still solve such problems, but only part time. That career has apparently made me pretty good at independent research, and translating biased statements into better pictures of whats really going on. In my career, I learned that witnesses can get confused in chaotic conditions, which were a surprise or shock to them, we translate witness statements into clues to figure out what really happened, to both repair any damage, and end phenomena causing things to go wrong in the first place.

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In addition to witness confusion, in the larger world we also have political bias, where an adversary relationship, and what communicators seek to accomplish, can further impose a spin on how alleged truths are presented. I first try to both wrap my head around whats happening, why we sometimes seem to be in trouble, then consider how we can do a better job. I want to both present an academically or journalistically fair representation of the various view points, and share my personal view point, when analyzing what the heck is going on, and what can be done about problem areas. The Author of this research, Alister Wm Macintyre, welcomes other people to download copies of Als work, but warns that different cited sources have different attribution and copyright restrictions, so care should be followed downstream, in selecting where to re-use the material.
Users of my research hold Alister Wm. Macintyre harmless, and also the places I upload my research to, and agree that my copyright is reserved and that the information is available for the intended purpose of helping my social network friends share an understanding on how humans ought to do a better job of learning about our world, so that we can take constructive action to improve it. I am doing this using individual documents focusing on different topics, where international news media (which often reflects national origin, and political bi as) can paint very different stories about what the heck is going on, to try to avoid any one document being excessively large. Some of my research content is direct quotes from other sources. I try to give credit every time I do this, and structure the quotes, so it is pretty obvious that they are quotes.

Iran controversies (3 Mar 14)

Theres a lot of propaganda, where the story from authorities inside and outside of Iran are colored by the adversarial relationships between the different nations. See in my Drone Nations for links to much more drone info, by nation. The USA and Iran have a multi-faceted set of conflicts, thanks to conflicting interests around the world, Irans nuclear ambitions, Iran leaders attitudes towards Israel, paralleling Nazi attitudes towards Jews, USAs coup against Iran, which placed the Shah of Iran into power, who became one of the most evil dictators in history, then after his downfall the Iran Hostage crisis, and Iran labeling the USA as the Great Satan, other western historical aggression towards Iran, escalation of recent covert activities in both directions, using a variety of activities including assassinations and cyber warfare.

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Drones over Iran (3 Mar 18)

Incidents with drones over Iran occur with great frequency. Sometimes it is not clear from news media which incident they are talking about. If we believe all the relevant stories out of Iran, what we know so far, 1 includes: 2006: An Iran drone allegedly buzzed the US air craft carrier Ronald Reagan, according to a Russian source.2 Iran had Drones before US started using them over Iran. 3 But due to military secrecy, adversarial relationships between nations, and lack of good news media coverage, theres a lot of uncertainty. US Drones have been overhead Iran at least since 2010.4
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http://cryptome.org/2013/02/ir-cia-drone.htm http://www.salon.com/2013/01/02/iran_says_it_captured_2_more_us_drones_in_past/singleton/ http://www.azorobotics.com/news.aspx?newsID=3606 2 http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/9-2695.aspx#startofcomments 3 Also see Drone Nations. April 18, 2010: Iran displays one of their drones during Army Day celebrations. See picture # six. http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/04/us/new-york-drone-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/top-iran-official-says-tehran-to-fit-self-made-long-range-dronewith-missiles-1.462262 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4276196,00.html http://www.silive.com/opinion/columns/index.ssf/2012/10/america_should_brace_for_blowb.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/iran-drones-israel_n_1970868.html See Drone Nations chapter on Hezbollah use of drones. See listing http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2012/09/13/who-else-has-drones/ https://dronewarsuk.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/a-century-of-drone-crashes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107146918 Iran claims first VTOL drone (vertical take off and landing) which I know is bogus, due to medical helicopter drones used to deliver medical supplies in mountainous regions where nothing else can land or take off. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/03/270194/iran-builds-worlds-first-vtol-drone/ http://cryptome.org/2013/03/opisrael-archive.htm Iranian "Small Scale" Drones : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghods_Mohajer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghods_Ababil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrar_(UCAV) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahed_129 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghods_Saeghe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofreh_Mahi

Also see Drone Nations. US drones captured by Iran: http://www.barackobama.ir/en/news/10521 Dec 2012 in Drone Dates (time line) has more info about this claim, moved here to Drone Iran.

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Iran allegedly captured a small, low-altitude Raven RQ-11 type drone, summer of 2011, then another of the same kind, Nov 2012. I learned about these two, Jan 2013. Handlaunched, RQ-11 drones are manufactured by AeroVironment, they have about a six mile range and a 90 minute endurance, cruising at 56 kilometres per hour. Ravens can operate using a ground operator, or be fully autonomous. Iran hacked down an almost totally intact stealth RQ-170 Sentinel, by telling it that its home airbase (in Afghanistan) was this airbase in Iran, then telling it to return to base. This happened late 2011 November.5 After a lot of denials, the US eventually admitted that the US CIA had been flying drones over Iran, and had lost one there. The stories, how it came to crash land at the Iran airbase, never converged between Iran and USA versions. There was a lot of coverage of this into Spring 2012. Sept 2012, Iran has a radar-evading drone.6 The USA has allegedly been using drones to spy on Iranian nuclear program,7 and that is how they found out Iran was moving fuel rods from the Bushehr reactor to a cooling pond during the week beginning 2012 Oct 22. The IAEA confirmed this report 2012 Nov-7. Iran and USA disagree over what is international waters and airspace, and what is Coastal waters and airspace. Many nations have such disputes. 2012 Nov-1, a US predator drone was flying in what US said was international airspace, and Iran said was Iran airspace.

Also see Venezuela in Drone Nations, and Drone Notes chapter on Hacker and Malware Concerns Azerbaijan allegedly has Israeli drones, with USA weapons conducting spying missions over Iran's shared border with Karabakh, and of course Iran is upset about this. Israel and Azerbaijan denied the allegations http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/12/reports_of_israeli_d.php This next link now appears to be broken: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sees-intelligence-surge-as-boost-toconfidence/2012/04/07/gIQAlCha2S_story.html 5 http://aviationintel.com/category/iranian-rq-170-incident/ http://aviationintel.com/2013/02/06/iron-posts-full-documentary-about-rq-170-sentinel-capture-includingpictures-from-its-recovery/ http://aviationintel.com/2013/02/12/new-rq-170-sentinel-pictures-from-iranian-video-emerge/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1Hl6mjqMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXezBhCyqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnHdNcseRC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08LHkl3ggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFQkl8dblE https://secure.flickr.com/photos/32368051@N08/sets/72157628342778287/ 6 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/23/263185/iran-makes-liko-radarevading-drone/ 7 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323717004578155510372482102.html http://www.albanytribune.com/03122012-us-boosts-number-of-spy-drone-flights-over-iran/

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Iran air force tried to shoot down the drone, via two Russian-made Su-25 jets known as Frogfoots, failed.8 Lots of accusations back and forth what constitutes an act of war. 2012 Nov-19, Iran complained to the UN about the intensity of US drones flying over Iran airspace. December 2012: Iran claims to capture a US drone.9 It is not clear from their info when the latest incident occurred. However, here is a video of the capture.10 The craft is in excellent condition, so it is evident to me, that it was a hack down, not a shoot down, as some news media has speculated, unless Iran has developed a new tactic, like a grab. 11 Here is video from inside RQ-170 Sentinel, indicating that Iran, Russia, and China, and possibly other nations, know as much about it as the USA does.12 Iran has a Scan Eagle in hand regardless of US claims that they have all of their units accounted for.13 Iran announcements speculating where it may have originated, which US or NATO military unit launched the thing, or how Iran got their hands on it. 14 Many nations in the region, not currently part of US military efforts, also have this technology. This news came out 2012 Dec-4. Azerbaijan allegedly has Israeli drones, with USA weapons conducting spying missions over Iran's shared border with Karabakh, and of course Iran is upset about this. Israel and Azerbaijan denied the allegations.15 I first saw this story 2012 Dec-20.

2013+ incidents & stories (3 Mar 15)

Iran is testing suicide drones.16 On Feb 25, 2013 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the following correspondence: Firms Reported to Have Engaged in Activities Related to
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https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/world/middleeast/pentagon-says-iran-fired-at-surveillance-dronelast-week.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/04/us/new-york-drone-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 9 http://aviationintel.com/2012/12/04/another-us-drone-down-over-iranian-territory-irgc-says-it-has-aninsitu-scan-eagle-in-hand/ http://www.barackobama.ir/en/news/10521 10 http://aviationintel.com/2012/12/04/iran-drone-capture-story-update-as-predicted-video-emerges/ 11 If a stealth helicopter flew over a drone, with a large net, it might be able to capture the thing, intact, that way. 12 http://aviationintel.com/2013/02/06/iran-posts-footage-clearly-taken-from-the-rq-170-sentinels-flir-turret/ http://aviationintel.com/2013/02/27/fascinating-iranian-rq-170-documentary-partially-translated/ 13 http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22121816/iran-says-it-captured-u-s-drone-navy 14 See for example, GAO report on drones by nation published in 2004, which I discuss in Drone Nations, where the US is not supposed to export them to certain troubled spots, but in fact many exported in violation of the non-proliferation treaties, thanks to several government agencies doing the opposite of their jobs. 15 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/12/reports_of_israeli_d.php 16 http://gulfnews.com/news/region/iran/iran-tests-suicide-drones-1.1150571

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Iran's Energy and Communications Sectors While Having Had U.S. Government Contracts, GAO-13-344R, February 25 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-344R Mar 12, 2013: The US had a Predator drone over the Persian Gulf. An Iranian manned fighter plane approached it. An American manned fighter plane arrived and verbally asked the Iranian to leave, which it did. No shots were fired.17 In middle of 2013 March: Iranian manned military aircraft targeted a U.S. Predator drone over the Persian Gulf. Both Iran and USA have confirmed the incident. The US says it was international waters airspace off Oman. No shots were fired.18 Iran is testing border patrol drones.19

The USA has CBP drones patrolling US border regions. They are supposedly not weaponized, but have lots of tools to identify the people they see, within 100 miles of US borders, which include 2/3 of US population. There were several incidents 2013 March, where Iran says NATO tried to send a U2 over Iran, but was chased off by Iran military. 20 The US disagrees, saying that was an unmanned aircraft. Future Prediction Iran and USA will have a 1 day war, then claim it was all by accident.21

Hezbollah drones (2 Oct 29)

According to GAO Drones by Nation 12-536 2012 July, Hezbollah is one terrorist organization which has acquired and used UAV
technology to date.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-us-jet-warns-iranian-fighter-approaching-predator-drone20130314,0,3286238.story?track=rss 18 http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/14/iran-confronts-u-s-drone-over-persian-gulf/ 19 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/17/294080/iran-tests-border-patrol-drones/ 20 No, I do not have a translation. http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/200685/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%86%D8%AF also http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/200783/%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%87%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AA%D8 %B1%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3 21 http://cryptome.org/2013/02/ir-zelzaal.htm

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There was a story in the news in October 2012 about a drone over Israel, where Israel thought it was from Iran, tried to hack it down, failed, so then they shot it down. The Oct 6 drone incursion was subsequently traced to Hezbollah.22

Iran claims to have pictures of Israeli military bases, taken by the crashed drone.23 Both Iran and Hezbollah claim to have sent other drones over Israel, which Israel did not notice, did not react to. Now that Israel has the crashed evidence, they find that some of the on-board equipment was made in Germany.24
Lawfare points at some of the early reports, Oct 8, 2012 QUOTE25

Over the weekend, Israel announced that it had shot down a drone that had penetrated its airspace. Heres John Villasenor over at Slate on the news implications,26 Bloomberg27 with Israels remarks, the AP on Israels flyover over Lebanon in response28, the New York Times story on Israels flyover29, and Guy Azriel of CNN with video of the drone being shot down:30 Speaking of drones, theres a protest underway led by Pakistani politician Imram Khan along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border31. Heres Ishtiaq Mahsud of the AP,32 and Salman Masood of the New York Times33 on the protests. Heres NPRs Dina Temple-Rastons latest report on U.S. drone strike policy in Pakistan.34

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http://www.silive.com/opinion/columns/index.ssf/2012/10/america_should_brace_for_blowb.html http://world.time.com/2012/10/23/riding-the-thermals-inside-hizballahs-drone-mostly-hot-air/ http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-real-purpose-of-the-hezbollah-drone.premium-1.472441 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/20121017145040613579.html http://tehrantimes.com/opinion/102606-the-collapse-of-iron-dome 23 http://www.newsday.com/news/world/report-iran-has-drone-pictures-of-israeli-bases-1.4166799 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/10/30/new-iranian-surveillance-drones-likely-expert-says 24 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4293342,00.html 25 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/10/todays-headlines-and-commentary-285/

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/07/israel_shoots_down_drone_that_may_have_been_ma de_by_iran_launched_from_lebanon_.html 27 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-07/israel-says-drone-origin-being-probed-amid-hezbollahlink-report.html 28 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443294904578042861902724622.html 29 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/middleeast/lebanon-says-israeli-planes-circled-its-airspacefor-an-hour.html?ref=world 30 http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/07/world/meast/israel-downed-drone/ 31 See Oct 2012 in Drone Dates. Thousands of people involved in this protest. 32 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-motorcade-protesting-us-drones-sets-off17412632#.UHLOVlLXeyE 33 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/asia/in-pakistan-drone-protest-led-by-imran-khan-takesdetour-for-safety.html?ref=world 34 https://www.npr.org/2012/10/06/162395399/u-s-drones-navigate-murky-legal-path-in-pakistan

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The Slate article raises important questions about the ability of Israel, or any nation for that matter, ability to detect hostile drones, and intercept them, before they do any harm.35 According to Lawfare, Oct 12, 2012 QUOTE36

There was a drone strike yesterday that killed 18 insurgents yesterday along the Afghan-Pakistan border.37 Hezbollah officials acknowledged that the drone that Israel shot down last weekend was theirs. Heres the Journal, 38 the Jerusalem Post39 and the Times40 on the subject.
UNQUOTE The Jerusalem Post said the drone was shot down with a Patriot surface to air missile.41 Slate said the drone was shot down by an Israeli fighter jet air to air missile.42 The Wall Street Journal wrote Oct 11, 2012 QUOTE43

Hezbollah leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah characterized the reconnaissance operation, which he said used an Iranian drone assembled in Lebanon, as a major success for the Shiite group. UNQUOTE

Macs Drone Research docs (3 Mar 14)

I have been looking into drones, and while doing so have found the info too voluminous for a single document, so this is one of several splits into subcategories.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/07/israel_shoots_down_drone_that_may_have_been_ma de_by_iran_launched_from_lebanon_.html 36 http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/10/todays-headlines-and-commentary-289/ 37 As with all such news, we wont know until much later coverage, if local officialdom agrees the killed were insurgents, the death toll was 18, and other dimensions. 38 Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443749204578050983096555370.html?mod=googlenews _wsj 39 http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=287487 40 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/world/middleeast/hassan-nasrallah-sayshezbollah-flew-iranian-designed-drone-into-israel.html?_r=2&ref=world& 41 http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=287487
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/07/israel_shoots_down_drone_that_may_have_been_ma de_by_iran_launched_from_lebanon_.html
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443749204578050983096555370.html?mod=googlenews _wsj

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My drone documents are named with a version #, which I increment as I replace with re-writes. In parentheses after each chapter heading is date in format (Year Month Day) when I last updated the contents of that chapter. People with an earlier edition can see what has been updated since they last got a copy. Some chapter headings end in an exclamation point. These indicate either identification of a controversy, and-or links to what the facts may be. Some chapter headings have a number # sign at the end. These indicate chapters with specifics on counts of people killed. Other symbols may be added later. This helps correlation of conflicting info sources, in my further research. Formerly, all my notes on Drones were in one document, which was growing excessively large. I have now split them into the following:

Drone Dates = Time Line Calendar of Dates of What Happened in Drone usage
History, and When we found out, thanks to publication of Key documents. 44 This info was originally in Drone Notes, then split off to its own document, where it grew lots more. Then Drone Iran split off from Drone Dates and Drone Nations.

Drone Iran = Listing of incidents between Iran and other nations where drones
involved. There are other areas of conflict, belonging in other research docs, which I am currently not having the time to follow closely. This info originally split off from Drone Dates and Drone Nations, which had split off from Drone Notes.

Drone Issues = A summary of controversies, reasons we need to figure out what is

happening, then participate in the political debate over what should be happening. Some of the things people believe about drones, they may be mistaken, those concerns belong in the directory, and need to be investigated, clarified, will be in my other drone documents. Towards the end of this document, I list what I consider to be extremely serious issues, found out in my drone studies so far, which no one seems to be adequately addressing. This info was originally part of Drone Notes, then split off to separate document, and grew in leaps and bounds.

Drone Log = Al Mac tracking overall collection of Al Mac Drone documents,

primarily for personal convenience this info will be least interesting part of the collection, for other people.

Drone Nations = A list of nations where drones are operating, being manufactured,
purchased, hacked, crashing, being used by military, not necessarily of same nation.

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Drone Reports is a directory of major sources of info, which I have located so far, downloaded some.

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With each nation listed, I have footnotes with links to examples of how drones are being used in that nation, the sophistication of the drones, and more info. This info was originally part of Drone Notes, then split off, grew in leaps and bounds. In time, it may get split to focus on military vs. civilian applications, manufacturing & export. Then Drone Iran split off from Drone Dates and Drone Nations. We see many articles claiming drones are in 40 or 50 nations. The last relevant GAO report, which I saw on this, says that 50 nations are manufacturing drones, with over 900 different models total, and many of them exporting to other nations in the world. The truth is maybe twice as many nations. Drone Nations is a directory of nations and non-nations with drones, with multiple links cited on what drones are being used for there, and my effort to correlate mismatches between different sources. See that document for details on the count which is constantly growing.

Drone Notes = my original main overall document, which later may be split again.
Here you can find: o Links to where I get this info, including official sources; 45 o Hundreds of USA locations, where drones are in use; o Legal complications; Political Complications; o Statistics on numbers of innocent bystanders killed, and numbers of enemy targets; o Technology advances, changing nature of Drone Capabilities; o Other topics.

Originally there was just the one document = Drone Notes, then over time I split off the others, either from Drone Notes, or later split some of the others, and occasionally launched a brand new doc.

Drone Reports = This is a directory of official downloads I have located, where, some
info about them, read so far, where my notes ended up, from that digesting. This started as a piece of Drone Notes, then got split off.

Drone Robots = These research notes explore development of killer drones which can
operate without human in the loop, and what are the implications of that. When this topic came to my attention, I already had multiple split offs from Drone Notes, so I decided to launch this as a separate focus area.

Drone Scribd = I created a Drone Info collection on Scribd, listing many educational,
interesting, and stimulating Scribd articles and documents on Drones. 46 Then I started
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Now just footnote citations, since directory of sources has moved to Drone Reports. http://www.scribd.com/collections/3807680/Drone-Info at http://www.scribd.com/AlMac99

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reviewing them. Where I had previously seen some of the info, I extracted prior notes from Drone Notes and Drone Terms to include here. Where I found, what seemed to me to be errors of fact, distortions, or incomplete pictures, I cite sources to complete the story, to help authors, of the other efforts, address gaps in their presentations. So in addition to my summary observations on many Scribd info sources about Drones, I also try to provide a road map to other sources I have found, relevant to the picture(s) painted by these Scribd reports.

Drone Terms = Glossary of Terminology, Acronyms, Concepts etc. which have come
up in my drone research. I have also encountered some parallel tales of alleged official misconduct, which have led to some non-drone content. By end of 2012, it had grown to over 1,000 acronyms, terms, and concepts defined, relevant to Drone research, and related National Security topics, so far. This info was one of the first to get split from Drone Notes. For more details, see Al Mac Shared Research section, at end of Drone Notes document, and what is in Drone Log.

Drone Research Sharing Sites (3 Mar 14)

Many places on the Internet, we must register with the site, to access info there, but some people are nervous about personal info which must sometimes be divulged to do so. In theory, with Google Drive Documents, where I have collection = Drone Info, with my Drone Dates + Iran + Issues + Log + Nations + Notes + Reports + Robots + Scribd + Terms,47 all you need is the url in my footnote link, to get at my Drone Info48 Google collection, which also includes many official documents from government and other sources. If you are on Scribd, here you can locate what I have uploaded there so far.49 It includes a spectrum of research into many different topics, not just on Drones. Note that I have collections for various categories of research. I have a growing collection of documents on drones downloaded from a multitude of official sources. I have not uploaded all the same ones to all the above collections, for various reasons. For some the copy-right permission to re-share them is murky. Some I have not yet studied, may adjust their naming after doing so, to make the content clearer.

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https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZLWR0bmZLS3d5OVk/edit Google Drive Document Collection = Drone Info: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4b-ZLWR0bmZLS3d5OVk/edit I also have a Google Drive Doc Collection = Disaster Avoidance, where I look into what the heck happened to cause various disasters, various proposals to be better prepared for better response, in many cases I do not yet have all the answers I desire. https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B9euafJH4bZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw/edit 49 http://www.scribd.com/AlMac99

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The Author of this research, Alister Wm Macintyre, welcomes other people to download copies of Als work, but warns that different cited sources have different attribution and copyright restrictions, so care should be followed downstream, in selecting where to reuse the material.

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When searching for me: Alister William Macintyre = my full name (Wm for middle initials) Al Macintyre = name I have used during most of my career Macwheel99 = e-mail handle (Mac-Wheel is a play on Surname) Macwheel98 = a few places where they messed up my access as Macwheel99, so I opened new account with this count down. AL MAC = sign-on name work place computers AlMac99 = user-id when joining places where function of user-id unclear to new users Here is how to get a hold of me via various social media. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/about http://www.linkedin.com/in/almacintyre also on Facebook (may be leaving FB) http://emergencysociety.com/ http://haitirewired.wired.com/profile/AlisterWmMacintyre http://rebuildhaitibetter.ning.com/profile/AlisterWmMacintyre Haiti Research shared with / posted at http://www.haiti.prizm.org/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HaitiDisasterRecoveryResearch/

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