Iranians shoot down US drone?
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yahtzee said:
obama asks "can i have my ball back please?" ..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/12/us-iran-...
Good luck with that... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/12/us-iran-...
anyone think Iran still has it?
EDIT: it seems they do still have it and are busy extracting all of the data from it.
Looks like America is not getting it back
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5...
EDIT: it seems they do still have it and are busy extracting all of the data from it.
Looks like America is not getting it back
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5...
Edited by jbi on Monday 12th December 19:17
Apparently they spoofed the true GPS signal, fed the gps coordinates of the drone's landing site to it, and it went into a fallback mode and landed itself "at home".
Reason the undercarriage is hidden and there's a few dents in the fuselage is because apparently the elevation of the programmed "home" site, and the actual site it landed at are off by a few metres, so it's either slammed into the ground a bit quick, or has dropped out of the sky by a couple of metres after stalling.
Link Here
Reason the undercarriage is hidden and there's a few dents in the fuselage is because apparently the elevation of the programmed "home" site, and the actual site it landed at are off by a few metres, so it's either slammed into the ground a bit quick, or has dropped out of the sky by a couple of metres after stalling.
Link Here
To be fair they (The Iranians) would have had to know the drone was in the air in the first place.
An RQ isn't exactly "visible". So if they were able to jam out the controls signals and spoof new ones then realistically they knew the drone was there to do it in the first instant and that for me is certainly more of a security issue.
An RQ isn't exactly "visible". So if they were able to jam out the controls signals and spoof new ones then realistically they knew the drone was there to do it in the first instant and that for me is certainly more of a security issue.
All it takes is someone on the ground with a mobile phone where they are being launched. Quick call to a 'mate' to watch out for drones at certain times, send the jamming/spoofing signal, voila.
If they managed to do that then the USA will simply encrypt the data.
What was interesting is that they (Iranians) said that they can use this to 'turn around' gps missiles.
If they managed to do that then the USA will simply encrypt the data.
What was interesting is that they (Iranians) said that they can use this to 'turn around' gps missiles.
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