US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says The US stealth drone broadcast last week on Iranian state television was captured by spoofing its GPS coordinates, a hack that tricked the bird into landing in Iranian territory instead of where it was programmed to touch down, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The 1700-word article cited an unnamed Iranian engineer who …
...they got it.
They _could_ return it one piece at a time, as the USA did to a certain CCCP MIG a few decades ago.
As has already been mentioned, the thing could be full of misleading tech and been designed to be captured. or not.
There was a hell of a lot of work done by the Allies to prevent the Axis realising their Enigma codes were readable - including putting people in harm's way. The only question is who is whom in this scenario?
No possibility that the US intelligence / military engineered a lot of this? Plant a deliberately simplified or otherwise messed up drone over Iranian airspace, "allow" them to take it over and capture it, maybe the ultimate Trojan horse? Then publically make lots of grumbling noises whilst privately sitting back and laughing their asses off, either having confirmed the type of EW capabilities the Iranians have or maybe even planting some kind of worm etc...also maybe throwing the Iranians well of the trail on how the latest stealth drones operate?
Also, how does one really jam GPS? It's presumably something that is a highly directional / LOS signal (SHF?), so I can use a directional antenna I assume because I know roughly where the signal will come from? And presumably I know the rough signal strength to be expected so I can discriminate against anything that is out of that expected range?
Regarding the CS article, it makes interesting reading and sounds technically plausible ~ but it must be rather doubtful that any IRGC ECM expert working on this presumably highly-classified military project would so readily volunteer to Scooby the Christian Cub reporter this level of (or indeed any) information about how the interception was done ~ at least not without some fairly hefty consequences arriving simultaneously by door and window as he puts the phone down.
This therefore looks more likely to be a 'sanctioned' leak by their Military Intelligence, possibly intended as a shot-across-the-bows-type friendly warning to "Just back waaayy the fuck up there, Gringo!" Equally, it could be misinfo, tuned to add perpetual torque to the headspin of the beleaguered Yanki warcrims, while conserving the real method actually used. Either way's a shovel of sand in the ample assbox of Great Satan ";0))
Also piquant, the sideline from an 'EU source' about Iran having already performed free laser eye surgery on a US spy-sat ~ another commendable, economically asymmetric defence measure which will leave the Pentagonal pussholes pining for fast-acting aluminium blinkers on their video-nasty GameBoyz Toyz, not to mention new CCDs. How to retrofit without the Shuttle is a slight conundrum, but nothing another eleventy trillions bilked from China won't sort, one presumes.
However, probably the outstanding strategic quinseconce of this Sentinal saga is that the technology/counter-measures will be most rapidly shared, not with the Russians or Chinese, but the next-door-neighbour Pakistani Military, for whom the USA is an 'ally' in roughly the same ratio as Israel is to the Palestinians. The Pakistani crash-upgrade to relevant radar/jamming capabilities should effectively spike longstanding stealth-based plans to attack/rob their very real nuclear weapons, as opposed to some fantasy Iranian ones. Of course, the genius Yanki Generalissimos will nevertheless continue making great progress in pushing patriotic Pakistan into a solid military alliance with Iran and China, and their PPP-coiterie of NATO-issue quislings now teetering on the brink of literal extinction will shortly recieve the final nudge. After which tipping-point, a friendly nuclear umbrella will officially extend to cover Iran, putting paid to further genocidal plots for filthy sneak attacks, fevered dreams of full-spectrum domineering and WW3 on the cheap.
In the interim, with the Pakistani border shuttered to NATO for indefinite duration, stocks of stool-softener and Pampers™ are running perilously low for the US Latrine Corpse landlocked in Afghanistan, who are reduced to scavenging the hillsides for firewood as they face into the Himalayan winter without the usual surplus of JP8. By contrast, the perennial Taliban warmly appreciate this new supply of opportunity targets to be sniped at leisure with ammo requisitioned from their own trucks stranded on the high passes. Poetic, some might say. And after Hillary's abortive sortie at a 'Color Revolution' by her Pink-Tutu brigade in Moscow, Vlad the Impaler will be in no mood to expedite any shipment of camoflaged incontinence-flannels via his Northern Distribution Network. Thus, brown trousers are back in season, big style ~ butt c'est la vie as a bargaining chip.
There's one important lesson in all this for Imperial Yankilandia ~ your bully days of aggression with impunity are over ~ and irregardless how heavily the supremacist 'Gott-mit-uns' mindset of the faux-Xtian fanatics retards the uptake, with consistent application leech through it must, even if it leaves the bully in a daze.
Meanwhile, as starvation stalks the rust-bowls of the bankrupt Imperial Homeland, the rumble of Revolution Mk2 brews in the belly of the militant Masses. And what rough beast, hivemind stirred from sloth at last, slouches towards Washington to purge the ponzi nest of critters?
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PS: To further console SeaLord Page and other apparatchiks, here's a holiday snap of the Pub with no Beer, Kabul Airbase, yesterday ~ please imagine the accompaniment of the world's tiniest ASCII violin while viewing ---> %
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qsca4j.jpg
LOL, looks like someone started very early on the Christmas eggnog! Doesn't seem to mix well with bile and bitterness.
I particularly like the dribbling idea that China will somehow provide a nuke umbrella for Iran, what with China being just as busy fighting its own war against Muslim Uighurs in western China. That would be the same Uighur groups linked to teh Taleban, which are happilly killing Chinese government engineers in Afghanistan (China is providing lots of aid and development work to Kharzai's regime, BTW). And completely ignores the fact that China is a mass exporter tot eh West and therefore does not want to rock the boat too much.
Maybe if you're good, Knochen, Santa will bring you a clue!
Re. your 'critique' ~ a lightly tossed Red Chinese Herring ~ have a fortune cookie [fortified with unintended irony] for being unembarrassed to flaunt your failure to keep up ... 'PPP-coiterie' refers to the rotten clique currently in government of Pakistan, thus my actual argument was that following their imminent disposal, Pakistan's nuclear umbrella will be extended over Iran to deter a mutual enemy, namely USA + assorted vassals.
If you think this unlikely, I invite you to earn easy cash in a little wager with me ~ let's deposit £1000 apiece in a joint escrow account [needing both signatures to withdraw] and agree that if, by the end of face-puppet Obama's Residency in the Offal Orifice, either of the following is true ...
1. Pakistan has not officially* announced 'all options on the table'** to defend Iran against any 3rd state-party aggression
2. Iran has detonated a nuclear weapon
... then I sign and you collect; whereas, if neither, you sign and I collect. Can't say fairer than that ... are you up for it?
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And here's challenge #2, Bomber: To test that wit your incessant LOLing indicates, pray demonstrate the deep political acumen you have acquired at the Breivik School of Foreign Policy by analysing this scenario with >= 1 original thought:
Take as given that tomorrow, your pack of Pentagovernment Generalissimos, having dropped extra tabs of Tostestermoan™ with their morning coffee, decide to ape out their basic instincts on Iran and with a sneak attack by midday have converted Page's wet dream of Blitzkrieg to reality ~ the facilities at Bushehr, Arak, Mashad and Natanz have each been attacked with a 50KT nuclear warhead and the Tehran Research Reactor's contents spread over a fair part of the capital city by conventional explosives. Cruise missiles aimed to assassinate Kahmenei and Ahmadinejad missed their marks but managed to obliterate a session of 150 MPs sitting in the Parliament, mostly 'Green Movement'. Total casualties are conservatively estimated at 10,000 dead ~ it is now 12:10 ~ your mission, should you choose to accept it, Mr C.. er.. Hunt, is to outline the 3 most probable significant reactions by Iran inside the 1, 5 and 10 year timeframes, showing your reasoning for each option chosen. Good luck!
Time allowed: open
* where 'officially' means made public by President, PM, FM, Parliament or Armed Forces Command and not countermanded by any superior instance.
** i.e. roughly equivalent to USA's declarations regarding Israel.
I can just imagine the letter now:
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Dear Mr Knobless Britlle,
I am writing to you w.r.t. your submission for the vacant post of Sixties Social Studies chair at London School of Eejits University (henceforth referred to as "LSE"). Whilst we find the general tone of your piece "Social Responsibility in the Face of Overwhelming Capitalist Aggression" to be replete with the levels of pre-judgemental bias required for the role, we cannot approve your submission as we find your premise fails to meet even the low level of reality required by LSE papers.
Your fellow traveller,
Comrade Professor R.J. Fruitloop, PhD.
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".....Pakistan's nuclear umbrella will be extended over Iran...." Where do you think the Iranians are getting their missile and nuke tech from? Where do you think the Palistanis got it? Tech for both has come from North Korea. In order to boost their crumbling economy, the Norks have been selling missile and nuke tech to anyone in the Mid East for years (they were behind the Syrian nuke reactor that the Israelis bombed in 2008). Even the UN has reported on the links between Iran and the Norks and their missile tech (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13402590). The death of Kim Jong-il has thrown all that in the air - the Chinese are more likely to assert greater control over what the Norks get up to now Kim is wormfood.
The problem with your idea that the Pakistanis will happilly provide a nuke umbrella for the Iranians is shown by the complete reliance of the Pakistanis on US aid. Even the most devote ISI commander knows that the withdrawl of US military aid and cash would bankrupt Pakistan, leaving them ripe for a civil war the Pakistani Taleban are likely to win. Due to inherent paranoia and the massive chip on their shoulders, the Pakistani military machine is designed for the next war with India to the East, hence the problems it has had when it has tried dealing with "insurgents" in the North-West. Their whole interference in Afghanistan is due to their paranoia that a stable Afghan would end up allied to much richer and more technically-advanced India and therefore be hostile to Pakistan, giving the Pakistani military nightmares about a war on two fronts. The last thing the Pakistanis would want would be open confrontation with the US whilst US forces are still in Afghanistan, and whilst the US government is getting friendly with India.
The Pakistanis were very upset by the raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan as it demonstrated how easily the US could strike inside Pakistan if required. The Pakistani military cannot afford to go to open confrontation with the US, and the US already has plans for the Pakistani nukes should they fall into Taleban control (or, just become anything more than an annoyance to the US). The Pakistani nuke unbrella would be more like a cocktail unbrella, and is not likely to be offered.
So, what are the Pakistanis' options? The Russians are happy to sell them all types of tech for cash, but they are fighting Islamist millitants linked to AQ and therefore to the ISI, so don't count on Russia suddenly deciding to go toe-to-toe with the US over Pakistan should they throw their lot in with Iran. Same goes for China, which is happilly building economic ties all over the World by a clever plan of co-operation and aid, but not confrontation with the US. Hence the convoluted double-game the Pakistan military plays, publicly helping the US even though they don't want to. For the Pakistani military and ruling class, there is no other game in town which will keep them in power.
Please try again, just for the laughs.
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