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Originally Posted by Roadking2003
The height of embarrassment. We spend trillions of dollars on our military and a backward chaotic country with no money is able to steal one of our most advanced weapons.
Reminds me of the Jimmie Carter helicopter rescue disaster.
Istanbul, Turkey
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.
Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who works for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying to unravel the drone’s stealth and intelligence secrets, and who could not be named for his safety.
Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian specialists then reconfigured the drone's GPS coordinates to make it land in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer - CSMonitor.com |
What I think is actually laughable is the fact that they used technology as old and archaic as something from before WWII to be able to gain what control they needed to accomplish it. A "WHITE NOISE GENERATOR" to block the command signals from the home base. That also blocks the GPS signals from the satellites, and by feeding in their own GPS signals, they can bring it down anywhere they want. Straight out of a science fiction movie.
The pictures are real, the drone is real. They know full well that they are "rubbing the collective nose of American Engineering in the dirt" with this. And, they are making the most of it. Especially with more than a dozen options that could have been incorporated into the system to make it impossible for them to do so. But, it was overlooks because it is so simple, and so old. Even an arc-welder, welding a piece of steel, puts out white noise.
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