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Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer Claims that Iran used control link jamming and GPS spoofing to land the drone. Interesting...

I am not sure that "components failed" is a very accurate explanation, if you don't include an explanation of why the component failed. Usually, failure has some root cause (other than "**** happens"), was it improperly designed or built? Was it used in circumstances it was not designed for...

Check your dates again. Iran reported to have it down on december 4th. The US responded then that the drone in question might be a drone that they lost control of in the previous week before. Press TV Story from Iran is dated Sun Dec 4, 2011 2:17PM GMT. Here is one report on the same day where...

A much more likely explanation for the reduction in drone attacks is that the US is just scared of their drones being hacked. If Iran (or China or whoever) can hack their Top secret stealth drones, how certain can they be of their control of other drones? It would be most prudent for them to...

US asks Iran to return captured drone This sounds like a burglar trying to break in at night returning in the morning asking for his crowbar back!

What an odd thing to say :)

There was something very interesting in this piece They are saying that it is a common occurrence for these drones to go missing and for their pilots to loose control of them!

If this was the 60s, a U2 had crashed in the Soviet Union and Gary Powers was on TV you would probably be saying: :)

Official Confirms Authenticity Of Iranian TV Images Showing Lost U.S. Drone | Fox News You have got to hand it to fox news, they can always pin something on Iran: Hmmm, I don't think Iran has ever said they shot it down, they have painstakingly explained that they brought it down intact from...

Now, that would be interesting. One would have thought that recorded data on this thing would be encrypted!! I guess they totally overlooked the possibility of this kind of "drone defection".

I agree, by keeping this secret they could have played very interesting mind games with the US. On the other hand US has acknowledged that they believe Iran has it so perhaps this move had the most value for them.

Amazing. This was surely a spectacular feat. Congratz and Respect to Iran.

The images above seems to be from the same thing as the video.

Not sure if these are the real thing, but they were linked from aviationintel RQ170's uploaded images - Imgur

So, in reading your posts I have to mind read what you really meant :) This sounds like a difficult task, I think I will just add you to my ignore list, so much easier :) If anyone else is interested, just click "Settings" in the top right corner, then click "My Settings | My Account | Edit...

But you just said to longbrain (#540) that he was completely wrong in thinking that a flight would keep complete radio silence to avoid detection. I guess you have no idea what you are talking about :)

:) You are hillarous. Your logic is, it was difficult to locate airborne transmitters in WW II, therefore this is not possible today :)

This is of course all speculations but what these media reports say that the drones are being flown from the US, from Creech Air Force Base to be exact. This would mean all the controls lie there and the stuff in airfields in Afghanistan is just controlled there. That means that setup and...

I am not saying that the viruses mentioned in these reports did something to the drones. But these reports point to weak computer security. And an adversary that can write advanced malware could exploit the same weaknesses to install rootkits (which actually can be looked at as eyes and ears and...

Of course it could also just be a simple case of operator error ("ok, which were the co-ordinates to spy at and which where the co-ordinates to land at? Well, it is 50-50 chance of getting it right") :lol: