[time-nuts] "The GPS navigation is the weakest point,"

[Chuck Harris]

In the 1970's, and 80's, US universities educated great quantities of
Iranian students.  Although there were some duds, most were very smart.
I've worked with several that could easily hack such a drone.  Hell,
there were Iranian engineers that helped design the GPS satellites and
receivers.

Should it be any surprise that they know how to do such things?

The only savings grace is so many of the US educated Iranian engineers
stayed in the US to live... but certainly not all.  How many have drifted
back home after the wave of anti-muslim/anti-arab-looking-people craze that
hit the US post 9/11 is anybody's guess.

-Chuck Harris

J. Forster wrote:
> Iran hijacked US drone, claims Iranian engineer  Tells Christian Science
> Monitor that CIA's spy aircraft was 'spoofed' into landing in enemy
> territory instead of its home base in Afghanistan
> Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside
> hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the
> US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured
> drone's systems inside Iran.
>
> Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications
> links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who
> works for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying
> to unravel the drone’s stealth and intelligence secrets, and who could not
> be named for his safety.
>
> Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a
> technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian
> specialists then reconfigured the drone's GPS coordinates to make it land
> in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan.