@Speculum jockey
Obviously it's not only the Iranians who are subjects to propaganda. I probably knows as little as you do about the incident but: It did not happen that way!

Viking

This drone have no sensitive stealth tech (see the drone histo).

Read your post over again. . . let it sink in.

Has he ever shown you pictures of the room that they have filled with taxpayer money that they have their orgies in? (just kidding). I have an uncle who works for Honeywell Canada's Aerospace division and he's actually done a lot of UAV work with Lockheed. He laughed a hearty laugh when the Iranians claimed to have "hacked" the guidance.

Actually, I think only the Iranians know what really happened.
If the CIA lost contact at some point, there cant be any data of that period to review - unless you get hold of the drone itself.


Any news about that key-/inputlogging virus which was in the media a some time ago?
But it doesn't really matter whether you hack or jam it, the result is the loss of one of those things.



And 50years ago, they thought they dont need onboard cannons anymore.... :D

This is an Aussie evaluation, although not an official one.
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html

Please remember I'm not saying this aircraft is the all and be all, it's far from it.

I'm saying or giving an opinion on why it was picked out of the 3 they looked at nothing more.

This isn't about which one is the best fighter/interceptor.

I'm sure news in the near future will start to shed light on why they picked it and we can all sleep better.

That's funny, by the pictures we've seen of the captured drone it doesn't look very "crashed" to me. Maybe it crashed from an altitude of 3 meters at a speed of 8 km/h LOL!

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Hve a look here for some of the latest mod in the F35 engine integration program.

http://www.aviationweek.com/media/im...e/cutaway.html

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The drone, when it loses contact will start a circular flight pattern until it regains contact with its guidance signal. Since it's a flying wing it has excellent gliding characteristics and when it crashed it most likely skidded to a halt on a relatively flat area of land. Crashing doesn't always mean there is a Hollywood fireball at the site, especially when your aircraft is out of fuel.

As for the key logger, it wasn't a virus, but instead a portion of the code used for error checking. Nothing sinister at all.

Finally. People who are saying, "it was hacked, and then they took control and told it to land at one of their airstrips". . . . REALLY?

You think that the guidance encryption is going to be something that's easily broken? Also once it is broken whoever did it now told the UAV to land at a runway that isn't programmed into it's system, using an operating system that they have probably never seen before in their life. That's some seriously unlikely "what ifs".

The real answer is usually the simple one. They jammed, it crashed, they gloated.

Agreed
Seems to me alot of speculation is going on here..

Think it's fair to say none of us know and if we did I'd like to know how.

I suggest we get off the 'it cannot be hacked routine' though..even jamming a so called secure signal is bad enough.

As already stated looks pretty good condition to me for a drone that 'crashed'...not once have I seen any report of it being fake or that this or that is out of place

Yes, I will settle for the "nobody here really knows anything about this" option. :)