[cpdiii]

That drone is inherently unstable due to design. Although a pilot on the ground is “flying it” its inherent aerodynamic instability requires an on board computer to keep it stable.

If the drone displayed by Iran is the real thing, this begs two questions.
1. Did someone on “our side” land it in Iran on purpose?
2. Did Iran land it because they knew how to control and fly the drone. If that is the case, how in the hell did they get that info?

[DB]

Its possible that if it has a hardware failure or loss of command communications it simply lands.

One would hope that it is equipped with a self destruct...

Perhaps they were able to jam the communications to it so it went into automatic fail safe and landed. If they did, that’s an exceedingly serious issue.

[moehoward]

We’ve been embarrassed before by some pretty pedestrian software. Remember Skygrabber?