muff528 3 #51 December 13, 2011 QuoteExploding a bomb in someone else's country could be considered jolly naughty [mild understatement]. What bomb? Maybe the drone just finally finished "crashing". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #52 December 13, 2011 Quote Quote Exploding a bomb in someone else's country could be considered jolly naughty [mild understatement]. What bomb? Maybe the drone just finally finished "crashing". Love thinking outside the box (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 622 #53 December 13, 2011 Spoken from the receiving end apparently. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yourmomma 0 #54 December 14, 2011 I have no idea, but it seems that this system should have a ram air APU for just such an instance. Seems silly that they wouldn't have had triple redundancy(at least) on a system that is, other than thrust, purely electrical. As a side note, my friend and I have built autonomous kit planes which in case of gps disruption used ; Accelerometers(not the way to go) and simple RLG's to return to point A. One would think similar systems exist on mutli-million dollar, top secret kit planes. Tho I have no idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #55 December 14, 2011 Quote Exploding a bomb in someone else's country could be considered jolly naughty [mild understatement]. Yeah. Like THAT has never been done before. Everyone needs to start keeping an eye in the sky. It won't be too long before it's reverse engineered and we start getting them flying our skies. Want to really piss them off? When you spot one, drop your drawers and moon them. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #56 December 16, 2011 QuoteHow did Iran manage to capture a US robotic surveillance plane, which looks remarkably undamaged in an Iranian video? The US initially claimed the drone went astray over Afghanistan and blamed a malfunction, but Iran said it had brought the craft down 200 kilometres inside its border earlier this month. Now the Christian Science Monitor reports that Iran jammed GPS signals and fooled the drone into landing at an Iranian base. "The GPS navigation is the weakest point," an unnamed Iranian engineer analysing the captured drone told a Monitor correspondent inside Iran. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain." Once the drone lost its bearings, the engineer said, Iranians were able to reprogram its internal mapping system to think that its home base was an Iranian site at almost the same altitude. He added that the slight mismatch in altitude caused a rough landing that damaged the robot plane's landing gear and underside. GPS signals are broadcast by satellites, so they are weak near the ground. That makes them vulnerable to interference from stronger nearby signals. Even military versions of GPS are vulnerable to electronic warfare, which usually seeks to disable key systems to bring down a plane. The Iranians claim to have taken that one step further by electronically capturing control of the remotely controlled robot craft. A former Navy specialist told the Monitor that hostilely reprogramming a GPS to fly to a different home is "certainly possible". http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/12/did-iran-hack-us-drones-gps.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BoogeyMan 0 #57 December 17, 2011 Quotehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4vGszQhJw No biggy...... The US has lots more drones, and hellfire missiles left. Plenty enuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,400 #58 January 11, 2012 Now it gets even weirder: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/iran-ufo-drone/ "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shah269 0 #59 January 11, 2012 QuoteThe U.S. has yet to confirm that the drone Iran claims to have is actually the stealthy “Beast of Kandahar,” and the yellow model that Iran has peddled out looks like it’s made out of fondant, like a drone-shaped cake constructed for an episode of Food Network Challenge. Funny but true! It is a fake, look at the wings!Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #60 January 11, 2012 it's rock and roll again... QuoteAgencies are reporting that a missile attack from a U.S. drone killed at least 4 in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack marks the first time a drone strike has occurred since late November, when a drone attack killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers. Yesterday's attack hit a home on the outskirts of the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan. From an LA Times report: “The bodies were completely burned beyond recognition,” said a local tribesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has been analyzing the data behind the covert drone war, shows that Obama's drone strikes now total 258. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-1stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
champu 1 #61 January 12, 2012 Quoteit's rock and roll again... QuoteAgencies are reporting that a missile attack from a U.S. drone killed at least 4 in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack marks the first time a drone strike has occurred since late November, when a drone attack killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-1 The Salala incident had nothing to do with drones. Commondreams is an idiotic website with the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gher 0 #62 January 12, 2012 QuoteQuoteit's rock and roll again... QuoteAgencies are reporting that a missile attack from a U.S. drone killed at least 4 in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack marks the first time a drone strike has occurred since late November, when a drone attack killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-1 The Salala incident had nothing to do with drones. Commondreams is an idiotic website with the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer. Don't feed the trolls. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #63 January 12, 2012 QuoteQuoteit's rock and roll again... QuoteAgencies are reporting that a missile attack from a U.S. drone killed at least 4 in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack marks the first time a drone strike has occurred since late November, when a drone attack killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-1 The Salala incident had nothing to do with drones. Commondreams is an idiotic website with the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer. not nice to shoot your allies...stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 18 #64 January 12, 2012 Quotenot nice to shoot your allies.. Do YOU have any?"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
