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Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone
First time accepted submitter QQBoss writes "The Air Force is not saying what caused the RQ-170 UAV to crash in Iran, but that Iran's claim to have forced it down is erroneous. The drone didn't come down and land gently as Iran had suggested it did. At least Iran got a good photo op, though the more interesting question is what technology will they be able to glean from what they did capture."
I do find it credible that Iran didn't use technical wizardry to down the drone.
Sounds nice. Ok. Now your next sentence:
As a former Air Force electronic warfare technician, I'm guessing that Iran just flooded the area with high-amplitude noise jamming to trigger an automatic landing routine.
Why are you contradicting yourself?
... sometimes called technical "wizardry".
Knowing what countermeasure to use and how to exploit an automatic routine isn't technical wizardry? Are you suggesting they used a gigantic net suspended in mid-air to catch the drone? No? Then they did defeat it using technical measures
They used technology to exploit a technological flaw. What more do you want?
There's a reason for classifying technology, and it's not to hide super-secret features. It's to prevent the enemy from knowing what a piece of shit the technology is.
Yeah that's called "security through obscurity" and no self-respecting security relies on it.
Hi, I'm Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I deny the holocaust ever happened, think Israel should be wiped off the map, and wish death to America. That said, you should really, really trust me when I say that our 31337 haxors downed that drone unscathed via a heretofore unprecedented GPS spoofing attack, guided to a safe landing in Iran by our top-secret, ultra-accurate, stealth-ignoring radar. We can do this at will, of course... we just choose not to most of the time. And if you're wondering why we chose to brag to the world about it instead of the tactically superior option of keeping it mum and pretending the drone downed to a technical malfunction, well, it's because our super-secret military skynet command-and-decision AI was hacked by the Israelis. Damn Israelis.