A drone crashes with munitions on board and the military suspects possible sabtagoe, hacking, inside attack by a foreign entity who they don’t know or their intention.
Thus command orders termination of said drone via air and you believe that means someone is “scared”?
Hajizadeh should close his mouth and be more pragmatic. Some of these Guard Corp act like it’s theater to walk around and make grandiose statements.
Instead how about he uses this capability to prevent/reduce Israel from pummeling T4 base, arms shipments to HZ, imports of anti missile systems, and attack on IRGC personnel in Syria.
Because while he loves to boost of Iran’s intel capability and prowress it obviously isn’t that good considering the fact that Israel kept striking Iran’s arms depots in syria over and over.
Not to mention even during US led Iraq war, insurgents could hack video feed of US drones with off the shelf equipment at one point.
Controlling the drone is impressive, but the rest of the comment of Hajizadeh just ruin professionalism of a military general.
They may had underestimated Iranian capability 2011 and RQ-170 was brought fully under control via hacking. But if even today their transmissions are still hacked by Iran, it either shows very high Iranian capability or they again neglected data-link encryption quality.
I wonder if the claim of a captured MQ-9 is connected to this. But that case would again mean that they didn't get their security to a suffcient level after the RQ-170 event...
However if the MQ-9 was captured, the compromised data-links could have helped to find a backdoor for another hack, at least of the ground transmission. Iranian SIGINT assets seem active in Iraq/Syria.
During US led Iraq war is known that drone feeds were unencrypted or security was lax. Doesn’t seem like much is done to correct this especially during peaceful non war times.
People seem to forget US military like all militaries cut corners.
I will say that US FLIR technology appears to be much stronger than iran’s as the picture is much more defined and detailed then those from Iranian drones.
