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Iran has film of captured US drone
Topic Started: Dec 8 2011, 11:21 AM (512 Views)
kluurs
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Electromagnetic pulse attack on the drone? Jamming of controls?
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Mikhailoh
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EMP was what I was thinking, but I'd bet they are hardened to some degree. I cannot help but doubt they hacked it.
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Axtremus
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EMP would just turn the drone into a dead weight. Not exactly conducive to a soft landing.
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Copper
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If it lost communication or had an engine failure I wouldn't be surprised if it has some ability to land itself.
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Dec 9 2011, 01:10 PM
If it lost communication or had an engine failure I wouldn't be surprised if it has some ability to land itself.
My partners son worked for Boeing when these were in the works. Supposedly, they had. A "fly to home" program if they lost communications with the base. Thats why I'm surprised to see that the Iranians are claiming to have it. Also, the photos look like a different model.
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Dec 9 2011, 01:17 PM
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Dec 9 2011, 01:10 PM
If it lost communication or had an engine failure I wouldn't be surprised if it has some ability to land itself.
My partners son worked for Boeing when these were in the works. Supposedly, they had. A "fly to home" program if they lost communications with the base. Thats why I'm surprised to see that the Iranians are claiming to have it. Also, the photos look like a different model.
From an article in the San Fran Chronicle

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The official said the possibility that the Iranians, perhaps with help from China or Russia, hacked into the drone's satellite communications is doubly alarming because it would mean that Iranian or other cyber-warfare officers were able to disable the Sentinel's automatic self-destruct, holding pattern and return-to-base mechanisms.

Those are intended to prevent the plane's secret flight control, optical, radar, surveillance and communications technology from falling into the wrong hands if its controllers at Creech Lake Air Force Base or the Tonopah Test Range, both in Nevada, lose contact with it.


I find this odd:

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Three U.S. defense officials said the plane the Iranians displayed on television yesterday appears to be the Lockheed Martin Corp. RQ-170 that controllers lost contact with on Dec. 4. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have declined to comment on the matter.

Three U.S. intelligence officials said the greatest concern now is that the Iranians will give Russian or Chinese scientists access to the aircraft, which is designed to be virtually invisible to radar and carries advanced communications and surveillance gear.

Studying it may give two technologically sophisticated potential adversaries insight into the unmanned spy plane's flight controls, communications gear, video equipment and self- destruct, holding pattern or return-to-base mechanisms, officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the RQ-170 is part of a Secret Compartmented Intelligence (SCI) program, a classification higher than Top Secret, and because the investigation into the loss of the drone is also classified.


:confused: Off the record or not, why would these guys be talking about it?

The puzzle is missing some pieces.
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