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Doubts that Iran managed to bring down an advanced American UAS last month using an advanced GPS spoofing attack have been raised by experts, who say that attacks of this type would be extremely tough to pull off. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth capabilities should have prevented the Iranians from spotting it
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The unmanned aircraft had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, they noticed, had risen into the "cautionary" range. An hour later, it was worse, and it just kept
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A US official says Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard the captured CIA stealth drone because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory. The official also said Saturday that despite Iran's latest claims to have
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Take everything that Iran says about its captured US drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. It’s possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on
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Iran plans to put foreign UAS it has in its possession on display in the near future, according to an informed source close to the Tehran Times. National reporters and foreign ambassadors based in Tehran will be allowed to visit the exhibition. The latest domestically manufactured electronic warfare equipment will
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Last week a three-foot model airplane crashed into a federal building in Waltham, Massachusetts. Federal investigators from DHS and the FBI promptly began investigating the incident, but so far no evidence exists to suggest any foul play. Special Agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the FBI, said, “The Department of
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A day after the announcement of the downing of a RQ-170 in Iran, the Public Intelligence website received an FOUO report entitled "Operating Next-Generation Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Irregular Warfare" published in April 2011 by the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. One of the many issues that
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Iran guided the CIA's "lost" RQ-170 to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran. Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to
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Iran has rejected a US call for the return of an unmanned surveillance aircraft captured by Iran's military earlier this month. The unmanned aircraft was now "property" of Iran and it was up to Iran to decide what to do with it, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi
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A US unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed on Tuesday at Seychelles international airport on the main island of Mahe, the US embassy said. At approximately 10.13 hours, a US remote-piloted MQ-9 aircraft took off from Seychelles International Airport on a routine patrol. Minutes into the flight, the tower was informed
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Photo: David Cenciotto The US Government is asking Iran to return the Lockheed Martin-built RQ-170 Sentinel that was recently downed over that country. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” President Obama said Monday during a news conference at the White House with Iraqi
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A former senior Pentagon official with extensive knowledge of unmanned aircraft expressed great scepticism of the aircraft supposed to be a stealth RQ-170 shown on Iranian television. AOL Defense asked one of Washington's most experienced UAS experts to have a look at the Iranian TV footage. The so-called