[geoffsanders]

I'm prior Air Force.

Few pieces of military technology are so individually valuable to overall tactical and strategic capabilities that knowledge or possession of such technology would tip the scales one way or the other. An exception would be the nuclear bomb.

We may have embarrassingly given the Iranians a freebie, but their ability to dissect and understand it is far different from their ability to reproduce or manufacture it for any tangible military advantage.

Keep in mind, the global dominance of the U.S. Air Force isn't rooted in any one aircraft or technology, rather it comes from the massive network of supporting technologies (e.g. global radar networks, manufacturing technologies, communication and satellite tech, etc.) and personnel (e.g. intelligence agencies, engineers and scientists, pilots, etc.) that support such advanced aircraft.

[adventured]

People seem to miss the part where Iran won't be able to build a thousand of these, supply them, fly them, train for them, maintain them, upgrade them, equip them with the appropriate technology, and build the next generation of them.

It'd be like saying: oh look I stole an Intel processor, and was able to figure out how it works. Now all I need is to build a fab and a global supply chain so I can churn out thirty million of them. Or hey, I know how PageRank works, Google better watch out.

[omilu]

yes good point, one stealth drone design does not an air force make.