it s the rq170. it flies and it conceals itself in ways that no other aircraft in the world can. kt mcfarland is our national security analyst and she is with me now. good morning. reporter: good morning. bill: how big a deal is this knowing the iranians have it. reporter: two things, we are spraoeug on ira spying on iran for possible action against iran. they have the technology. who will they share it with, what will they do with it, we don t know. bill: were we using this to spy on their nuclear program? reporter: my hunch is we ve always known, bill, that ultimately it would come down between a choice of bombing iran, or letting iran get the bomb. and if we are now preparing to have a war with iran, you know, we ve already started seeing the early stages of this on both sides. the iranians have tried to assassinate diplomats in
the shape of that rq170, the unmanned aerial vehicle that the iranians now have. i don t know that it was shot down, that it crashed jon: they claim they shot it down. right. so my point is, i don t know what shape it s in. but clearly stealth technology has been out there for a while. we have some incredible r & d, research and development capabilities. we would have to assume that not everything that we have on that aircraft is new or hasn t already been exploit ned som exploited in some way or that that technology doesn t exist in somebody else s hand. the iranians can do the exploitation, the reverse engineering. they might ask the chinese to participate in that, they have a relationship with those guys. the key concern in my mind is what was the sensor that was on that aircraft? was it sending pictures, sending full motion video, was it doing signals, intelligence, picking up different types of signals,