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Agreed and the more informed speculation about the RQ-170 that I have read is very skeptical of the Iranian GPS-spoofing story. The RQ-170 supposedly has at le
by Kadin 8y ago
Agreed and the more informed speculation about the RQ-170 that I have read is very skeptical of the Iranian GPS-spoofing story. The RQ-170 supposedly has at least doubly-redundant, possibly triply-redundant, position-fixing systems, and it seems nearly impossible that GPS failure or spoofing wouldn't have been anticipated in the design.
Some have suggested that the aircraft might have crashed for other reasons and been recovered by Iran, and the GPS spoofing story is propaganda on their part in order to explain how they came into possession of it.
I suspect we will not know the real story until all the documents are declassified at some point in the future.
http://aviationintel.com/iran-says-it-spoofed-the-rq-170-sentinel-into-thinking-it-was-home-others-say-it-was-captured-in-afghanistan/ http://aviationintel.com/iran-says-it-spoofed-the-rq-170-sen...