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I think it may be time to:
1) train new drone operators.
2) change our radio frequences.
3) upgrade the piloting software.
Two drones falling out of the sky into the wrong hands is too much for me! We're not talking about a simple glider here, folks. These drone aircraft cost MILLIONS! And for even one to fall into enemy hands not because it was shot down but because "it went rogue" or had some unknown "malfunction" that sent it off course is too much for me.
Let him go ahead and try.....it'll make our day.Chaz,
Not sure we would have shot it down, but if we could have jammed its radio frequencey to bring it down, yes...absolutely.
Here's another report out of Iran on the downed drone, this time it's from Ahmadinejad himself proclaiming "Iran can now 'control' the aircraft". Based on the article, I assume by "control" he means fly the drone. That wouldn't surprise me. It's a radio-controlled plane. Find the right frequency and you can pilot the darn thing. I'm not worried about them being able to pilot the drone. I worry about the intel Iran might gain from it or their ability to reverse engineer it. But flying it...not a problem. And if that's the best they can do as far as what info they've been able to get from it, I say our military secrets are still pretty much secure.
We've lost plenty of helicopters and personnel that cost far more. It's a war.I think it may be time to:
1) train new drone operators.
2) change our radio frequences.
3) upgrade the piloting software.
Two drones falling out of the sky into the wrong hands is too much for me! We're not talking about a simple glider here, folks. These drone aircraft cost MILLIONS! And for even one to fall into enemy hands not because it was shot down but because "it went rogue" or had some unknown "malfunction" that sent it off course is too much for me.
We've lost plenty of helicopters and personnel that cost far more. It's a war.
ADDED: looking a bit more closely at the map, Somalia is the nearest bit of land that we might want to keep an eye on from Seychelles, totally reasonable that the drone was doing a fly-over over Mogadishu and had to land.