Please Give my plane back

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Alpha Dog, Dec 13, 2011.


  1. Redneck Rebel

    Redneck Rebel Monkey++

    Better write up a no returns policy on that one.
     
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  2. Alpha Dog

    Alpha Dog survival of the breed

    See the plan would be we could use O-dumba$$ as our secret weapon of mass destuction. We could send him to enemy countries and help him get into a political office and he could destroy the enemy country from the inside out like he has done to the US.
     
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  3. gmt48

    gmt48 Monkey+

    Looks as if that drone that “crashed” in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com[​IMG]</st1:country-region><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place> suffered no damage. In fact, it appears to be in such good shape that all that's missing is the gift wrapping.


    Why didn't Obama order the drone destroyed? I think the answer is obvious: Obama is an extraordinarily weak and indecisive President/Commander in Chief who is focused on (in his words) “…fundamentally transform[ing] America …” into the Progressive's Marxist-Totalitarian society.


    I have a different question regarding the drone, however. If a home built bomb in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> can be triggered to detonate remotely by a cell phone, then why wasn’t the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placeName w:st="on">United</st1:placeName> <st1:placeType w:st="on">State</st1:placeType></st1:place>’s super high tech top secret spy drone built with remotely triggered self destruction capabilities?
     
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  4. larryinalabama

    larryinalabama Monkey++

    If the Irains will take Obama Id give them a fleet of planes
     
  5. Redneck Rebel

    Redneck Rebel Monkey++

    They'd probably settle for the parts they need to get their old Tomcats airborne again.
     
  6. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    Drone has serious DESIGN Flaw..

    Drone has serious DESIGN Flaw.. We knew about it but NEVER fixed it..... Duh....

    Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
    In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran.
    By Scott Peterson,*Staff writer, Payam Faramarzi*,*Correspondent / December 15, 2011


    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.
    IN PICTURES: America's Predator drones
    "The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's "electronic ambush" of the highly classified US drone. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
    The “spoofing” technique that the Iranians used – which took into account precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data – made the drone “land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications” from the US control center, says the engineer.
    The revelations about Iran's apparent electronic prowess come as the US, Israel, and some European nations appear to be engaged in an ever-widening covert war with Iran, which has seen assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, explosions at Iran's missile and industrial facilities, and the Stuxnet computer virus that set back Iran’s nuclear program.
    Now this engineer’s account of how Iran took over one of America’s most sophisticated drones suggests Tehran has found a way to hit back. The techniques were developed from reverse-engineering several less sophisticated American drones captured or shot down in recent years, the engineer says, and by taking advantage of weak, easily manipulated GPS signals, which calculate location and speed from multiple satellites.
    RECOMMENDED: Downed US drone: How Iran caught the 'beast'
    Western military experts and a number of published papers on GPS spoofing indicate that the scenario described by the Iranian engineer is plausible.
    "Even modern combat-grade GPS [is] very susceptible” to manipulation, says former US Navy electronic warfare specialist Robert Densmore, adding that it is “certainly possible” to recalibrate the GPS on a drone so that it flies on a different course. “I wouldn't say it's easy, but the technology is there.”
    In 2009, Iran-backed Shiite militants in Iraq were found to have downloaded live, unencrypted video streams from American Predator drones with inexpensive, off-the-shelf software. But Iran’s apparent ability now to actually take control of a drone is far more significant.
    Iran asserted its ability to do this in September, as pressure mounted over its nuclear program.
    Gen. Moharam Gholizadeh, the deputy for electronic warfare at the air defense headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), described to Fars News how Iran could alter the path of a GPS-guided missile – a tactic more easily applied to a slower-moving drone.

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    As I stated in an early Post.... Some engineer, Somewhere needs to get his A** Kicked.... and the Bozo who thought that no one would ever know about the flaw, needs to be FIRED, for Terminal Stupidity......
     
  7. Seawolf1090

    Seawolf1090 Retired Curmudgeonly IT Monkey Founding Member

    Those drones still need a tamper-proof self-destruct, tied to a timer - say five minutes after landing, if the proper 'stand down' signal isn't received, "BOOM"!
     
  8. Alpha Dog

    Alpha Dog survival of the breed

    Have to give just a little more time for the whole group to gather around the plane to shoot their guns up in the air and scream thank ahla.
    Then send them all to meet ahla.
     
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