Posted on 02/13/2012 6:58:20 PM PST by U-238
Well, the failsafes failed in this case. Now comes the who is to blame part.
Well, the failsafes failed in this case. Now comes the who is to blame part.
Predator and Reapor planes do have USB drives to update maps and transport mission videos from one computer to another
I didn’t say anything about said USB drive having anything to do with the drone, other than the “downed” drone being the delivery method.
I read you. Who really knows.
scenario to me screams : pilot got captured while operating, administration wants to say something else happened to the aircraft
He was waiting for clearance from lawyers.
Yes, and the lack of any proof is proof of how good the cover-up actually is.
The UAV experienced some sort of malfunction unrelated to anything the Iranians might have done. . .if the Iranians even knew the thing was there. (The Iranians didn’t know it was there, otherwise they would have seized the platform immediately after it touched-down).
The UAV went into a lost-link flight profile and eventually ran out of fuel, however, the on-board electronics still functioned and kept the platform trimmed and therefore balanced, and this accounts for the relatively low level of damage-—it glided in fully trimmed.
The UAV was designed many years ago and was designed to operate in hostile airspace, not just in permissive airspace.
News “reporters” rarely have a clue about what they are reporting on, and in this case, the news reporters are making stuff up because they don’t know a darned thing.
Yeah. . .while operating the UAV from his on-base operator station in Creech AB, Nevada.
Ah Ok I always thought these needed operators within a certain proximity to establish a satellite link , my bad, so there goes the conspiracy theory of deliberate downing , too many eyes and ears at a US airbase, not plausable
OR a solar flare EMF broke the com link , we are entering the 11 year cycle of peak solar flare activity
evidently yhe system needs a forward operating team in line of sight proximity on the ground because of the sattelite delay between controller joystick and vehicle, it can be launched 400 miles away and handed off , so capture of the forward operating base is a possibility, NO ?
....or the forward operating team was KIA
What a f*king joke.
Safety observers are there to monitor the launch and recovery, not as some sort of comm-link.
There is no requirement for this UAV (or Predator) to have a direct line-of-sight satellite feed as the data is passed through. . .satellites. . .and latency between what a controller puts in and the UAV actually moving is negligible and hardly noticeable.
The quote you provide talks about helping launch and recovery,not operations, and a “capture” of the UAV electronically can’t happen. . .especially with the Iranians or even the Chinese or Russians. . .the signal is encrypted and secure and beyond their capability.
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