Iran: We Stole All Secrets From US Drone

ABC ^ | By LEE FERRAN (@leeferran) | Dec. 10, 2012

[chessplayer]

An Iranian military commander claimed Monday that the country has stolen all the secrets held by a high-tech American surveillance drone that crashed in Iran last year, according to Iranian news reports.

"All the intelligence in this drone has been completely decoded and extracted and we know each and every step it has taken," said Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Division for the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, according to an English-language report by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency.

[bgill]

C. Obama sent them the instructions.

D. Obama sent them a couple dozen ready to fly.

[bikerman]

Did the info state to look to the right or the left for a mushroom shaped cloud???

[jmcenanly]

This sounds like a great way to pass along false information or to introduce a virus. Not that the current regime would do anything to harm a sworn enemy

[traumer]

[Seizethecarp]

“Now the Chinese or Russians, that’s another story.”

I would expect the Russians and the Chinese (and French, apparently) to already have the blueprints for this drone...as well as for the machine tools and composite materials fabrication required to build it...oh, and the computer hardware and software as well!

[Trod Upon]

Remember all the people laughing about China buying the Varyag? They also laughed about the refit. Then they laughed at the sea trials. I suppose they're laughing about the successful launches and arrested landings now. They don't understand that China is learning to walk before it runs, and is doing it on the cheap. You can bet their next generation carriers will be markedly different, and as our economic ability to build and field carrier fleets decays, theirs will likely grow, but hey let's laugh at where they are right now while ignoring how far they've come and what they've learned along the way. You see the same knee-jerk scoffing with Iran. It's an unwillingness to face the new realities.

Back in the 80's you could laugh about the "ignorant ME goat-humpers" who could neither effectively use nor maintain modern military gear, and the idea of them producing anything was an even bigger joke. Problem is, we spent the last 30 years selling some of the best engineering education money could buy all around the globe while here at home we pumped out marketing execs, lawyers, and government employees. We're just starting to see the fruits of that in Asia and the ME. I will now sit back and await my anointing as "Chicken Little," but that's my $.02 on the issue of our complacency.

[Hulka]

The software unravels if tampered with. Nothing but random ones-and-zeros.

They are lying.

[Hulka]

Our software codes are designed to unravel if tampered with. We do that to all our jets and other technology supporting airborne ops over enemy territory.

The code unravels and nothing remains but junk. No matter who you are, you can’t “extract” it, especially the dung-drinking iranians.

[justa-hairyape]

Why don’t these things blow up when they’re captures or tampered with?

Talked to someone who was a drone operator. Sits at a console out in the SW US desert. He said they had no clue as to how the first drone was brought down. They were never supposed to land like that if control was lost. The Iranians clearly have the capability to take full control of the drone.

[N. Theknow]

An Iranian military commander claimed Monday that the country has stolen all the secrets held by a high-tech American surveillance drone that crashed in Iran last year

In other news, an order for thousands of cases of Ovaltine was reportedly received from the Middle East.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“The Iranians clearly have the capability to take full control of the drone.”

Shouldn’t there be a simple software fix for that?

[justa-hairyape]

Not if you can mimic the US control codes and programming language. Only two possibilities back then. Internal sabotage due to a virus or the Iranians gained control. Since this is the second drone loss, one would assume they should have corrected any internal sabotage issues by now. Take the Iranians for their words during the first drone loss. They made the drone think that landing in Iran was landing back at the drones home base. Perhaps not full control yet, but close. When the drones start firing on our own ships and troops, then the Iranian will have achieved full control.

[Hulka]

Not exactly.

The first UAV was simple lost link. Enters hold pattern while attempts are made to re-establish link. Then it is to RTB. Thing is, the control signal for that first UAV is encrypted and the dung-drinking Iranians can’t intrude/take over. Think “encrypted Have-Quick” radio signal. So, simple lost link and the UAV simply ran out of gas—and that platform has auto-trim so it pancaked-in, didn’t auger in. It is as a simple as that.

The ScanEagle UAV was under encrypted control as well. ScanEagles are well established and the cause of the loss is TBD.

[Hulka]

For over a decade I worked FMS to various ME countries. No matter the gear, and training, they are still third-world camel humpers. No getting around that fact. We could even give them the F-22 and we would still kick their smelly butts. That is a fact. They simple don’t have the culture, initiative or smarts to use the gear.

[justa-hairyape]

So the UAV lost its link they ran out of gas and soft landed in enemy territory. Great programming there guys. According to the person I talked to, think he was a console pilot, that was not supposed to ever happen.

[Hulka]

I work with the engineers, not desk clickers. Unless your console “pilot” has access to that particular UAV, then he has no insight on autonomous ops and programing. In fact, since he is a desk pilot, he doesn’t work with autonomous platforms—especially that platform.

Programming worked. There are aspects we aren’t talking about here. Ask your “console pilot,” he should understand why.

[Trod Upon]

I hope you’re correct and that they generally remain inbred, livestock-ravishing incompetents for decades to come.