“The Iranians are unusually talented in cyber war for some reason we don't fully understand,” Schmidt said in an interview with CNN, which was aired on Thursday.
On December 4, the Iranian military's electronic warfare unit announced that Iran had downed with minimal damage the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth reconnaissance aircraft, while it was in violation of the Iranian airspace.
The aircraft, designed and developed by the American company Lockheed Martin, had crossed Iran's border with Afghanistan and was brought down as it was flying above the northeastern city of Kashmar.
Iran has announced that it intends to carry out reverse engineering on the aerial vehicle, which is also known as the Beast of Kandahar, and is similar in design to a US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber.
Acknowledging Iran's capability to reverse engineer the aerial vehicle, Peter Grier, a staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor online daily, wrote in an article on Thursday, “It's been done before, by a country that at the time the United States considered technologically inferior.”
According to Grier, in August 1947, the USSR paraded a Tu-4 Bull aircraft, a replica of an American B-29 heavy bomber, which the Soviet government had impounded in 1944 after the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at a base in the Soviet Union.
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Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt has acknowledged the extraordinary talent of Iranian experts in cyber warfare, reacting to the Iranian Army's recent downing of an aggressive US spy drone.
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