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Informative article overall but it also includes this: "Iran will take care to hide the drone well as the U.S. would likely try to destroy it if its location w
by Jun8 15y ago
Informative article overall but it also includes this:
"Iran will take care to hide the drone well as the U.S. would likely try to destroy it if its location would be known. When the Chinese collected parts of a stealth F-117 stealth plane that was downed in Yugoslavia the U.S. bombed their embassy in Belgrade."
The second claim about the Chinese is ridiculous. But apart from that, assuming they have the drone intact, what will the Iranians actually learn from it? If I give you a PC motherboard, you can learn from it but to produce one is another thing altogether. Same for developing anti-drone electronic warfare technology. Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along.
- GiraffeNecktie 15y ago"Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along." It might have been a largely Russian operation using the Iranians as a proxy.
- plugger 15y agoI think this is probably the most plausible explanation. Apparently six weeks ago the Iranians took delivery of the Russian's latest Avtobaza ground-based electronic intelligence and jamming system. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/avtobaza-irans-weapon-in-rq-17.html http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/avtoba... If that's the case it's a win win for both Iran and Russia. Iranians get the press coup of poking the US's eye whilst Russia walks away with an RQ-170 (to reverse engineer and resell to the Iranians of course).
- bdr 15y agoWhat exactly is ridiculous? That's also my understanding of what happened.
- caycep 15y agothere's a test bed to see if your new stealth-detecting radar works as advertised...you can do tests on the composition of the RAM in the skin...you can test your viruses and EW software/hardware on its controls
- Zarathust 15y agoIt is my understanding of hacking that some people see compiled binaries as source code. Likewise, some really hardcore hardware hackers can manage to decrypt and reverse engineer a lot of stuff from chips. This include but might not be limited to : hardware encryption keys, communication protocols and specifics about sensors, which might help them to evade them in the future
- 9oliYQjP 15y agohttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/U.S._bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade#F-117 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/U.S._bombing_...