Posted on 12/15/2011 10:32:48 AM PST by alex2011
"The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian military official told the Monitor, calling the downing an "electronic ambush" of secret drone.
"By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain," he added.
The engineer added that the Iranians were able to make the drone land "on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications” from the US control center."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
it did return to base - the base was in Iran. The drone thought it was in Afghanistan, because Iranians spoofed the GPS signal — the only way it knows where it is in 3D space!
Unfortunately its a major screw up: in design of the drone,in operation,and then in not destroying the bird on the ground by the pResident.
...or home grown muslims...
Okay, so what you’re saying is that Iranian fighters pulled along side. One of them damaged the nose of the drone, the pilot killing himself in the process. The drone then followed the other aircraft because it was outgunned and feared for it’s own safety.
Well... okay. ;^)
I get it. **** happens. I’m not buying off that Tehran Bob’s **** happened.
Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong.
It was my understanding the drone was shot down. Has that been debunked?
No maybe to it.
They did it.
If the drone wasn’t over Iranian territory when they hi-jacked it, then that’s an act of war.
Proper retribution would be the complete elimination of the Iranian air force and missle systems.
It still wouldn’t have happened if Obama hadn’t refused permission to destroy it. He obviously wanted to give Iran and China a little prezzie. First the stealth helicopter that went down in Pokistan, and now this.
Probably why it didn’t Self Destruct.
Yes it would if you design it correctly. If you have 3 independent ways of navigation they take a a vote of where to go: 2 can always overrule 1. Thus if they just Jammed the GPS other nav system would have taken it to base. Having significant errors between at least 2 navigation systems, should initiate a self destruct of the drone. Thus Iranians would have to perfectly spoof ground beacons and GPS to get it — very unlikely. Also, its important to run the monitoring stations (that NSA responsibility) next to Iran to detect when they turn on their spoofing/jamming transmitters and deal with them — not that Obama would.
Wanna bet?
Only diff is language.
Did you see this? http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/drone-virus-kept-quiet/
Don’t think its a Worm. The thinking is the Worm is some monitoring software installed by some branch of US Gov,just never reported to people who need to know. Taking the drone over the way Iranian is describing, is much simply technically than the Worm. So my bet is the Iranian is not BS’ing. The classified networks are Air Gabbed,even if you have Worm on it you can’t control it real-time to do bad stuff.
Do you believe them?
just read a report about this..... a general says the welds are wrong, the landing gear is not shown, and the size is incorrect... this is a mock up, not one of our drones.... remember GI Joe....
Come on DO.
If it was simply shot down there would be little left of this drone. These things are really fragile.
After being hit with rockets/missiles, and then crashing, there would be nothing left but small pieces.
Ask yourself, why would the President of the United States ask for it back, if it was shot down and crashed?
Why are there all kinds of images of a fully intact U.S. drone with Iranians posing for pictures around it?
Sooooo...does a military drone start to acquire the characteristics of its CIC? Maybe the drone was looking for a spot to take a vacation.
Seems like what is needed here is a “Trojan Drone”.
Where, specifically, did you get that information?
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