Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh revealed on Thursday that several American unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) flying above Syria and Iraq were remotely commandeered by the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
“Seven to eight drones that had constant flights over Syria and Iraq were brought under our control and their intel was monitored by us and we could gain their first-hand intel,” General Hajizadeh said in the Western Iranian city of Hamedan on Thursday.
Fars News Agency published a three-minute video taken on several different occasions by UAVs. Half of the content shows a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper hacked by IRGC electronic warfare forces, then flown into the ground. The last segment of the video shows an American air strike targeting the crashed UAV.
The footage below shows IRGC’s penetration into United States Central Command, could be seen as evidence that supports General Hajizadeh’s claims.
Iran has a long history of pioneering UAV technology. The country has manufactured UAVs since the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s.
Fars News Agency explains that drone technology in the country soared when it downed a US army RQ-170 Sentinel in Eastern Iran in 2011. One quarter later, Iran started production of its RQ-170 stealth aircraft after it reverse engineered the downed UAV. The Iranian RQ-170 conducted its official flight in late 2014.
The original RQ-170 was a stealth UAV manufactured for surveillance operations, while the Iranian version of the RQ-170 is armed with missiles.
In 2013, General Hajizadeh said Iran jumped three decades ahead in UAV technology after it reverse engineered American UAVs.
Fars News Agency said Iran has acquired a vast collection of downed American UAVs, including Scan Eagle, Raptor, M-Q9 surveillance. All drones have since been reverse engineered into new advance drones that are currently being deployed in Iran and in Syria.
The statement from General Hajizadeh and the video published by Fars News Agency came amid reports that the US had accelerated a top-secret program to destroy Iran’s missile program.
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Sounds like CENTCOM needs to get their collective EW sh*t together.
I used to work UAV ops and if the IRGC can recover a “stealth” drone and reverse engineer the electronic control systems they’re fairly clever. Disrupting and crashing drones on an active mission is another level of skill, but then again, we’re also violating their airspace.
why don’t we put remote controlled explosives in these drones so that if they crash or we lose control of them to a 3rd party we can blow them up?
It’s a reliable applause line for the trained seals in the audience when the Orange Crusader touts how much dough he lavished on the already morbidly obese dod. Anyone who has ever run departments-mine in a construction company-knows the worse thing you can do is lavish money on any of them. It only builds fat and lazy habits. Tight budgets are muscle builders. Those like Iran who don’t have those resources have to use what they do have judicially and wisely. Thus, a deficit is turned into advantage. But don’t expect it in murica. Too many pigs with their snoots in the slop.
Heads down, asses up- ripe for plunder… or revolution.
Wankers.
The Persians don’t have shit on the Serbians when it comes to aviation WAR TROPHIES.
If the Iranians can hack drones, imagine what the Russians and Chinese can do. Hack nuclear missiles? The entire electrical grid? The stock market? Wouldn’t be surprised if they could bankrupt the entire West with a few taps on computer keys. Come to think of it we’re bankrupt already. Never mind.
Bankrupt in terms of J00 created Federal Reserve Note monopoly money- certainly.
Morally bankrupt- largely, but far from completely. Some folks have killed their proverbial TV.
Intellectually bankrupt- largely, as art and science have been utterly hijacked. Some inquisitive people have smelled and smoked this one out.
Spiritually- largely if only transiently, as the Matrix and the spiritual “rust” that comes with it rapidly being discovered by even casual observers.
Let’s smash the Fed, launch the ashes toward the Sun… and have a Moral, Intellectual, and Spiritual debt Jubilee.
The Creator would be proud.
“If the Iranians can hack drones, imagine what the Russians and Chinese can do. ”
It’s been reported that about HALF of the cruise missiles fired into Syria (per Trump’s response regarding the fake Syrian chemical attack) were shot down.
Google “USS Donald Cook hacked” and you’ll find stuff like this;
“In place of bombs or missiles, the SU-24s approaching Donald Cook carried a container with a Khibina radio-electronic warfare system. After approaching the ship, the Khibina systems turned off [the destroyer’s] smart radar, combat control links, and data transfer systems – in a word, the entire Aegis, like we turn off a television with the push of a button on a remote. Afterwards, the fighter-bombers conducted a simulated missile attack on the blind and deaf destroyer […]. Donald Cook never approached Russian waters again. Nor did NATO ships that relieved it in the Black Sea.”
And there are LOTS more incidents all over the world. It’s my guess that when it comes to electronic warfare that Russia and China have us by the ballz.
Narrow beamwidth antenna arrays with enough transmitted RF power pointed at a target can literally fry sensitive solid state systems. It’s comparatively cheap to build a high wattage EW jammer and very expensive to replace what it’s designed to ruin.
Some of the older drones were programmed to fly a circular holding pattern if no flight control commands were received. If the drone is jammed effectively with enough power it might fly a holding pattern until it runs out of fuel, or if the control electronics are sufficiently disrupted, fall out of the sky.
We were verifying Soviet compliance with nuclear test treaties and evaluating their secret missile performances back in the 1980’s by intercepting their missile telemetry. It’s just a matter of time before the less sophisticated countries catch up.