[mikey_hates_everything]

Great OPSEC announcing this.

[curious7]

You’d think they would have a laser based inertial system as a backup. These days it can’t be a very big weight or power penalty.

[A strike]

BarakHusseinOsama gave a highly secret fully capable military drone to Iran

-fJRoberts-

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The landing was going to be announced, it was publicly witnessed. No telling why, aircraft experience forced landings for a lot of reasons. I suspect that the drone has sufficient INS capability to “get home” without GPS, and is probably programmed to do so. There may have been a communications link hiccup, perhaps due to jamming. That the Russians are willing to show their cards by jamming, even with known capabilities, seems to bespeak panic, or fear on their part.

You are correct in principle, however. Never respond to jamming in a manner that the enemy can observe, if you have other options. Maybe the jamming was ineffective, and this is a ploy to encourage the Russians to keep it up. Two or more can play at deception. “Oh please don’t, Brer Ivan, don’t throw me in dat dar briar patch!”.