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To: Qbert

Why did not the drone self destruct before the enemy got his hands on it, like in the 1960’s TV show “Misson Impossible”? I smell a rat.


18 posted on 12/06/2011 9:33:03 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: forgotten man
... said the Sentinel, carrying an array of classified surveillance systems, would have a self-destruct mechanism to disable or destroy it if operators lost control.

He said it's difficult to believe that Iran could have brought down the aircraft with electronic jamming or by taking the controls through a cyber attack as the country claims it did. "You never say never, but I would be gob-smacked and amazed if they even knew how," Gambold said.

43 posted on 12/06/2011 8:35:57 PM PST by traumer
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