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How Iran took control of the RQ-170 DRONE
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 2034366:MV8xNzI1Mzk2XzI4NTU1MTUxX0E3MzY0MDk0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 6877657:MV8xNzI1Mzk2XzI4NTU1MTA2XzQ0MjUyMTcy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 2034366:MV8xNzI1Mzk2XzI4NTU1MDc0X0U0QThCQ0FF] Truth can be much simpler. Russia has station and equipment somewhere in iranian mountains near Afganistan, operated by russians, they are listening and analyzing radio traffic, and they are decoded commands for drones, and hacked drone, and landed it in Iran... You will not hear for them because officialy there are no russian troups in Iran. Russia had tested its technologies in Serbia(intercepted stealth), and is testing now in Iran. [/quote] why would russia give away the fact they can to this for iran, which then gives us time to counter act? I am pretty sure that to send the controlling signal would also give their position away dr [/quote] I dont know why, but may be this is important for Russia and Iran - Russia get advanced US technologies by reverse engineering, Iran get benefits from their work. And Russia will not be officialy involved. [/quote]
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When the drone is in the air it is controlled via a satellite link from a remote operating station. But during start and landing the drone is piloted via line-of-sight radio by an operator near the start or landing field. This is necessary because the remote satellite link has a delay of several hundred milliseconds which is just too much latency to correct wind sheer and other problems during takeoff and landing.
What the Iranians seem to have done is to take over the drone's line-of-sight control. This after electronically disrupting its satellite link. Disrupting the satellite link alone would not be enough as the drone would then have followed some preprogrammed action like simply flying back to where it came from. With the line-of-sight control active a satellite link disruption would not lead to a preprogrammed abort.
We can reasonably assume that the Iranians have some station near Kandahar Airport that is listening to all military radio traffic there. They had four years to analyze the radio signaling between the ground operator and such drones. Even if that control signal is encrypted pattern recognition during many flights over four years would have given them enough information to break the code. - [
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