fyi
Act of war.
Obama = Carter
Ping.
Hey McCain, we’ve already GOT a muslim in the White House!/s (paragraph VI)
That’s an act of war by the phony holy men.
Blatant attempts at spoofing like this (like GPS supposedly telling the craft it is somewhere that its operating parameters, i.e. fuel usage, speed, and time in flight, would not make possible) ought to bring about the craft’s automatic self destruction upon landing.
Tell me again, why is NASA collaborating with Mooses?
None of this rings true at all.
Even a novice design team would build in at least triple layer watchdog systems.
There is no way a simple loss of GPS would cause all the systems to fail. Furthermore,
corruption of one system by trojan or virus would not take out the other watchdog
systems. These systems are kept isolated from each other by code base and power supply
and in some instances they have different design teams to ensure against sabotage.
Any one of the redundant systems would either result in the drone returning to friendly
airspace or the destruction of the craft.
GPS is not the sole method of determining the crafts location. They can follow terrain
just as a cruise missile can by referencing mapping data. GPS can give a drone pinpoint
navigation but that is overkill, within a few hundred yards is sufficient and even the
old system of inertial guidance can handle that.
The notion that the craft sustained damage because the landing strip is not at the same
altitude as the real one somewhere in Afghanistan is absurd! A sophisticated drone does
not rely on GPS to determine height above a runway, such a task is child’s play for even
a low dollar radar altimeter system. A remote controled plane enthusiast could build such
a system for his toy planes.
You simply cannot jam the communications system of a drone from the ground! They have
a link to low orbit satellites and the antenna for this is atop the craft and shielded from
a signal located on the ground. A break of this link would also result in a countdown to
self destruct that could only be halted by an encrypted code sent back from the drones
control point.
There is much much more I could say, I will say that this whole story strikes me as ridiculous
in the extreme.
Not related to the main topic, but buried in the text:
“That revolution installed a theocratic government much of the kind that some Christian fundamentalists have called for here in the U.S. — in which the state had a religion of choice, but (supposedly) offers freedom of religion via legislative protections for religious minorities. “
WTF? And it goes on to imply that McCain supports that kind of thing?
Really diminishes the credibility of the rest of this article.
Oh., This is much more believable than Muzzie in Chief flat out sold it to the Russian. Yeah, much more believable.
You began with Jack Bauer; therfore the rest must be true.
Many on this board were Jack Baur sychophants, so lets let the fantasy run out to its copmletion...
Jack Bauer dropped the ball.
This implies our entire military GPS guidance system has been compromised.
Where would a GPS guided smart bomb hit. Not likely where it was supposed to.
The entire GPS system needs to either be trashed or an upgrade.
With China, and likely Russia, having the ability to destroy GPS satellites, Iran et al able to spoof signals, it’s worthless.
Then there’s EMP.
If we had a president instead of a community organizer, this would not have happened. Iran committed an OVERT ACT OF WAR by deliberately spoofing the operational signals and frequencies that this AMERICAN drone uses.
Iran has declared war on the USA, but our Sissy In Chief, Obama, fails to recognize it or act on it.
Amazing. They've converted our unmanned drone to a manned drone.
No one would have ever tried to mess with us again after that demonstration of wrath.
Of course, it's still not too late; we know precisely where it is:
Of course a warning to evacuate the city would be humane -- and then we could strike at the time of our own choosing...
The same goes for our drone.
Of course Øbozo lacks two things which prevents him using even a conventional cruise missile to "declassify" our captured drone...
Lot of hot air and bullsh*t. None of it is true. Iran are known liars that make crap up that is known to be false and this is just more of the same.