I have no doubt that obama handled this poorly (possibly intentionally), but how did he manage to make it “lose its tether”?
How embarrassing to be this author.
Are we to believe that we made a top secret weapon without a self destruct mechanism? Are we to believe that we lost this weapon and made no effort to retrieve it or destroy it?
At your own peril.
Are we to believe that the author has been watching too many late night spy movies?
No, there is no self destruct mechanism on UAVs.
It would be funny if the whole thing was to reinfect computers.
Interesting ideas. The reports I got is that Iran hacked into the control program of the Drone and landed it on one of their airfields. They may have sent phantom information to make our remote control operator think the Drone was in the air and still flying—just not responding. That would allow Iranian hackers to get the Drone and disable it before some kind of destruct mechanism was triggered. If there was no such destruct mechanism, that’s egg on our face. Without pinpointing where it landed, we were out of luck launching an attack to destroy the entire landing area.
The alarming aspect of this incident is that the operating software has been hacked. How did we let such top secret information get compromised? Heads should roll over this one.
Let me pose this question... What military person, what ever rank, would do this? Would follow an order such as this? with all the stories about court martial for seemingly less, why would any sane service man give into an order such as this??????? i think it irresponsible of you, and the others who post this shit. If obama downed a drone and gave it to an enemy, then he did this with miltary consent. Which creates a whole nother picture.
Get the facts... somebody knows what happened, hammer for an answer. but simple saying obama gave away our most top secret weapon again, is irresponsible.
What if it went down for any number of reasons and the self destruct malfunctioned?? what if it was as simple as that, and our military is shamed for what your thread boasts?? i dont know... a lot of you here at free republic are drunk on self importance, another large group think they are the smartest guys in the room. posting these assumptions make you look slightly half cocked....
There’s an alternate explanation. It’s at least possible that the drone was landed in Iran as a part of a dark operation where it’s being used to deliver Trojan Horse viruses to the Iranian defense system. That’s at least minimally plausible in light of the Stuxnet virus and how it may have been developed by the U.S. and Israel. If that explanation is true it would be to our advantage to have everybody thinking the drone’s delivery was an intentional giveaway of vital iinformation. I’m not arguing this is the explanation, just that we need to wait to see what it really is. Remember, in WWII lots of black things, like Ultra, happened to our advantage that we never learned about until recently.
Can we trade them “Drones”?
We have one in D.C. we wouldn’t miss.....
I hear we never went to the moon...it was faked in a movie studio.
I have said before, and I say again, Obama is an EVIL PONS. He is an Islamofacist. The worst kind. He has to be stopped. He is out to destroy America...pure and simple. HE IS EVIL. He is what we were warned by our Founding Fathers to prevent. The way is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence.