i value your knowledges gambit. with respect i give my opinion. i wish you could give some info on "hacking"...
Let me put it to you, and the others here, this way: Avionics cannot be 'hacked', especially flight controls. The system is designed to be independent of external influences. Pilot inputs are integral to any FLCS so they are considered internal factors. In effect, in order to 'hack' the FLCS of any manned aircraft, it would be like holding a gun to a hostage and compel the pilot to do as command. However, what can be 'hacked', or more precisely 'altered', for these drones are the instructions sets that contains specific flight parameters, such as on so-and-so day you will fly to a certain location, loiter at so-and-so altitude with so-and-so speed, for so-and-so duration. These drones are not under 100% control all the time, in fact, the more sophisticated ones can take off and land by themselves. It is only when a drone reach an area of interests that may contain activities that are unpredictable is where ground controllers take over, operate the sensors, and redirect flight paths if necessary to maintain sensor contact. Most of the time, these 'pilots' just set the drone's autopilot and let the avionics do the rest. So in order to 'hack' these instruction sets, many things must be known beforehand and that require human activities, read: spies, who must obtain a copy of the standard flight parameters, a 'template' if you will, and somehow transmit that information back to home country where they can be altered.
sure. right now who is able to say "i know what happened"
We do. But for genuine security reasons, we will not say how. Even if it is from a technical cause, disclosure of that vulnerability can still give adversaries some knowledge that they can infer as to what level is our technology. Some vulnerabilities are already obvious, such as over-the-air (OTA) data links that can be affected by weather or by stray signals. This vulnerability is not a secret and that is why we have 'safe' or 'default' conditions for these robots.
I know someone very near friend who is working in radar station. He already said me many times: we know US send drones and planes . We can see it. The fact you should know as a military man: there is some info the country will not release... because why they should release something that is kind of obvious
I highly doubt that. In radar detection,
NOTHING is invisible but the question is distance of detection. For our 'stealth' aircrafts, and they include these drones, for every one that your friend can see, there are at least two his system missed.
This is why we need experts to know what they think about.
Some of them already gave their opinions but because the contents of those opinions do not conform to desired notions, they are dismissed.
Anyway i don't see my country "forced" to give some pics... why they should?
No one can 'forced' Iran to give photographic evidences of possession. But think about this for a moment...Assume that Iran successfully cracked the real time control links and effectively take over flight commands, if Iran does nothing and we believe (falsely) that we are safe, then Iran have given US continued freedom to conduct ISR flights against Iran, and in order to control what we see, Iran would have to conduct a massive countrywide technical counter-espionage program to hide everything because Iran has not give away the knowledge that US drones conducting ISR flights have been compromised. How much of this is going to cost Iran in terms of money and time?
If Iran allowed US a few more ISR flights before commandeering another drone, then at least we have gotten a few more bits of useful intelligence before we have to shut down the drones.
But if Iran show the world beyond reasonable doubts that US drones are technically compromised, the entire US unmanned ISR program will come to a halt
WORLDWIDE.