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"Iranian officials say its forces electronically hijacked the drone and steered it to the ground." "BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the intact co
by arunabha 15y ago
"Iranian officials say its forces electronically hijacked the drone and steered it to the ground."
"BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the intact condition of the Sentinel tends to support their claim."
If this is true, how on earth did they manage to take control of the plane ? Surely a top secret drone would have significant defenses against precisely this kind of attack.
- mahyarm 15y agoThey created enough interference/distortion to make the drone go into automatic landing mode? I don't know how they work so I don't even know if they if have that mode, but that's what I would guess.
- shareme 15y agothat is more probable than anything else and matches Iran's electronic capabilities
- politician 15y ago// bill: don't be so paranoid -mgmt //if (inIran && lost_tether) nosedive(); if (lost_tether) find_a_nice_flat_place_to_land(); Unlikely.
- mahyarm 15y agoKnowing how unreliable RF can be, I think they had to make a tradeoff between self-destruct on interference being a hilarious and cheap way to destroy their expensive drone fleet and landing on extended interference.
- politician 15y agoSelf-destruct on interference ... of a stealth drone... in enemy airspace... because it is presumably damaged to the point where it can't fly east. It's stealth, so they shouldn't have been able to track it. It's encountering this over enemy airspace, so it should interpret this as an attack. The untethered drone has a few options: (a) fly east, (b) self-destruct, or (c) land. It's bizarre that it chose to land under those conditions.
- mahyarm 15y agoStealth doesn't mean impossible to detect, it means harder to detect.
- Tuna-Fish 15y ago"top secret" is just another way to say "security hasn't been properly reviewed and pen-tested". Of course there are defenses against this sort of thing. Are they effective and comprehensive? Unless the system has been under months of public scrutiny, that's unlikely.