All kidding aside, it's great that we have this technology that allows us to do what we do w/o having to put American pilots at risk.
Posted on 12/04/2011 1:31:05 PM PST by buzzer
Operators of a U.S. drone lost flight control of it along Afghanistan's western border with Iran, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the incident. The crew operating the unmanned drone reported a loss of flight control just before the drone went down. U.S. officials are aware of reports out of Iran that they shot down a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel and believe this may be the drone the Iranians are talking about, according to this U.S. official.
(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...
BAD gamer. No Doritos.
The pilot is uncounted for. Let’s hope he or she is found in time to be home for Christmas. In other news, don’t we like have these spy satellites that can read a license plate from space?
Yeah, I’m worried about the pilot too...
All kidding aside, it's great that we have this technology that allows us to do what we do w/o having to put American pilots at risk.
Sounds to me like the Iranians have found a way to jam the frequency used to fly the thing.
They don’t need to shoot it down if they can do that.
Sounds to me like the Iranians have found a way to jam the frequency used to fly the thing.
They don’t need to shoot it down if they can do that.
It seems so..
It seems so..
Eventually, ALL unmanned aerial vehicles become unmanned ground vehicles.
I hope the pilot’s OK! Rescue mission NOW!
I hope the pilot’s OK! Rescue mission NOW!
I had just heard that there was no evidence that it was ours through a Reuters article... I’ll check the time on the article and if there’s another update or not...
I had just heard that there was no evidence that it was ours through a Reuters article... I’ll check the time on the article and if there’s another update or not...
Lost US aircraft in Iran...just one more thing Obama has in common with Carter.
I read that it only incorporates first-generation stealth technology. They purposely left out the latest and greatest, given this aircraft's type of mission and the consequent high likelihood of samples falling into the wrong hands.
Smart, if true... Not that I don’t think our military would consider those factors in the first place.
I think the more important issue - than possible stolen tech secrets is that Iran is stating in ITS papers that it perpetrated what would generally be considered an aggressive action against the US. The mullahs are, IMHO, planting the seeds for a “defensive” war propaganda-wise. Fortunately, there are many in Iran who are well aware of the fact that it’s attempted propaganda.
“The pilot is uncounted for.”
The RQ-170 is a unmaned remote controlled device. The pilots of these drones usually sit somewhere in nevada near vegas.
just another example of exporting technology to our enemies. nothing to see here. move along
B.T. Barnum...
Please tell me this is sarcasm. You do know what a drone is, right? The “pilot” is probably watching football in Nevada as we speak.
Please tell me this is sarcasm. You do know what a drone is, right? The “pilot” is probably watching football in Nevada as we speak.
If we didn’t want the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, etc. to have the UAV, they would have found a smoking crater instead.
If we didn’t want the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, etc. to have the UAV, they would have found a smoking crater instead.
If we didn’t want the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, etc. to have the UAV, they would have found a smoking crater instead.
Those darn slots are a distraction.
“I think the more important issue - than possible stolen tech secrets is that Iran is stating in ITS papers that it perpetrated what would generally be considered an aggressive action against the US.”
I hope that the “official” versions of both sides are true.
Meaning that the damn thing went out of control and accidentally violated iranian airspace. Then it would be OK they blew it out of the air. No problem.
If we lose control of such a device, we lose control but we have enough other stuff in the air and space to locate it on it’s way across the border. We would have informed the iranian gouvernment somehow and apologized for the violation of their airspace and made this public.
This did not happen ! That means there are only two other scenarios remaining:
a) We delibrate violated their airspace, they blew it up. Scares me but doesn’t make me wonder
b) They captured the damn thing.
Scares me much more then a)
“The mullahs are, IMHO, planting the seeds for a “defensive” war propaganda-wise.”
As Senator Hiram Johnson (R) once said:
“The first casualty when war comes is truth”
I guess we’re already at a new cold war.
Well, daddy, I see you got the joke!
Yes. It was sarcasm. Yes, I know what a drone it. Yes. I know they’re flown remotely. I was trying at some humor.
Is it time for the Navy to smoke another Iranian airliner?
Hah! Saw right through that. He’s an Iranian!! See that habib on his head???? Can’t fool me. LOL
Let’s go get it.
Aljazeera says that elite IRGC hackers took over the drone
(which may or may not have been over Iran). This is the second or third one now so the IRGC team is a leg up.
It also means they can get Russian help dumping the ROM
and firmware. Not easy but it will get done with Putin sharing the bounty.
No one’s fault, just a determined foe.
Sorry fellas....some days you just can’t tell if people are joking or stupid. You’ve restored a tiny bit of my faith in humanity :)
LOL! I remember the day that photo was released. Wasn’t it Reuters?
When I go out on a date I’ll throw out something like that just to watch his reaction. I like to make outlandish statements that are so out of it that it couldn’t be taken seriously. I love my LOL moments.
Anything that uses radio waves can be intercepted, recorded, analyzed, decoded and used. Just matter of time.
and you’re not a fella??? whoops. A double apology. lol
Lucky shooting?
This is not quite correct. RPVs are mostly autonomous and human intervention is quite limited. Satellite links provide data transmission back to the ground operator. You can bet that command and control signals, as well as data are all encrypted, and if the Iranians are breaking these kinds of codes and exploiting them in real time, then some folks at NSA need to be fired. Jamming does not good because the system is designed assuming that it will be jammed, which is why flight is mostly autonomous.
They might have shot one down, or it might have gone down because of a technical mishap, but that is why you fly UAVs, so that you can risk flying them in a high threat environoment. By comparison to a manned aircraft they are cheap.
No wurries, mate. It’s fun when FReepers find out after a few posts.
Why is everyone posting twice?
Why is everyone posting twice?
Looks like everyone here graduated from the school of redundancy again.
Looks like everyone here graduated from the school of redundancy again.
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