Let's not drone on about this

Iran said today that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove his claim that Tehran's military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran. This could be quite worrying if they use that drone against the States. Even though US officials believe Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard it because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory, the captured surveillance drone could prove to be a national asset for Iran. It could even be turned into a nuclear weapon for all we know.