Posted on 12/15/2011 10:32:48 AM PST by alex2011
If Iran wants nukes, let’s give them a couple hundred.
Actually the Iranians have always taken quite well to computer technology. Had it not been for the Iranian Revolution they might be rivaling India today as an outsourcing center.
Air Gabbed? What is that?
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
"In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran."
Only of lower quality. This plays in quite well with Iran's statements in the past about "swarms" of air frames.
RIGHT ANSWER! I think this is cover for the possibility that our security has been cracked or hacked somewhere. I can not imagine a drone that would not return to base even if GPS was blocked by jamming. This could be done by inertial nav, or simple magnetic headings back to base.
I find the silence on our side deafening.
I can’t answer that. I also can’t answer the ex-defense department individual that says the drone shown in photos is a fake. He addresses the visible construction variances that do not lend themselves to stealth.
If we actually had a drone land intact, it would seem we would take it out.
We don’t have to do that with another drone, or from low to the ground over-flights.
I’m interested to see how this plays out.
IMHO...
They undoubtedly did what they said.
But they are not smart, the design is seriously deficient for combat.
(hint, hint, need 2 modes, combat and non-combat; before it gets shipped to combat, you take out the peactime module and stick in a combat module, which is identical except for distress logic).
Why can’t the big defense contractors think of this stuff ?????????????
And I notice the price of these things is still sky-high.
Ridiculous.
You bet.
We live in an era where everything is dependent on computer technology/wireless systems and networks. The scary part is our basic infrastructure is extremely vulnerable and can be manipulated as it's not hardened as much of our military stuff is, or is supposed to be. Our own government manipulates it. We're talking all the way down to the gas pumps, banking and retail cash registers.
The potential for causing absolute chaos and havoc to our systems, is beyond scary.
That makes sense.
Having all the navigation eggs in that one basket doesn't.
Well, then I guess the President of the United States is requesting the Iranians hand over their fake drone.
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We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
Military network security specialists aren’t sure whether the virus and its so-called “keylogger” payload were introduced intentionally or by accident; it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks. The specialists don’t know exactly how far the virus has spread. But they’re sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech. That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command
You people BELIEVE this? Geez. “We genius Iranians made this happen.” Yeah, right.
BTW, if anything should be in “breaking news”, this should be it, rather than, “Time Person of the Year: The Protester”.
The aircaft maintains a series of way points
If craft find itself some delta from it's expected position
Then the craft uses dead reckoning to return to a previous way point (and tries again) or it uses dead reckoning to return to base
problem solved.
You could be right. I personally don’t take anything mObama does as proof positive of something. That could come back to bite me at times like this, but it’s still my policy.
“The potential for causing absolute chaos and havoc to our systems, is beyond scary.”
I firmly believe that if we are ever close to a hot event with China, much of this will be made evident, quietly at first.
You don’t need to be a genius to do what the Iranians says they did. In fact even before this post,I wrote in some comments basically the same thing. Its not hard to do for professionals,especially if you have some help from Russians and/or Chicoms. What’s more crazy is that nobody did it before since its fairly simple for nation-state,and 2. That this advanced Bird didn’t have redundancies and countermeasures (most likely our designed got complacent.)
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