Japan Chooses F-35 For Next Generation Fighter Jet

Originally Posted by addman

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!

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.