Ive just read on the web that it was an iranian flying saucer with a tractor beam that took the drone. aparrantly the man who created the technology offered it to NASA but they declined. I think his name is hersh or kersh?

a self destruct button would be pretty pointless in battle. all the enemy has to do is hack it and blow it out of the air.

and if the u.s. wasn't violating international law by spying over iran it would have not been lost in the first place.

I am not familiar with the credulity of your source...
But I can believe it...

-shakes fist in direction of China-

The Pentagon spent hundreds of Billions...if not TRILLIONS on technology so we could protect ourselves with a smaller, more lethal force.


Turns out our smaller more lethal force....is worthless. If China can protect themselves from the scalar weapons...or defeat them too....it'll be their millenia.

Whether the source is credible or not, I can totally believe it was China. They got some smart cookies in that country. Those kids study 24 hours a day nonstop. I honestly can't see Iran being smarter then China.

Originally posted by randomname
a self destruct button would be pretty pointless in battle. all the enemy has to do is hack it and blow it out of the air.

and if the u.s. wasn't violating international law by spying over iran it would have not been lost in the first place.

I wasn't meaning a self destruct button. I meant there should have been a way that if the device failed to receive a signal for say "set" number of seconds from the encrypted controller device then it blows itself up. If it's hacked, it still blows up.

2048 encryption is not extraordinary encryption. There should have been a "key" from controller to device. You might can hack the device, but you can't break the key. So even if the signal is stolen, the device has a built in self destruct code.

As for the spying....it goes on. It always has. It always will. just because we aren't flying at 80-100,000 feet in an SR-71 to do it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Iran is viewed as an enemy. We spy on enemy states. All state do it or at least try to do it to other states they view as enemy states. So don't think there was anything special happening here that hasn't gone on for hundreds if not thousands of years.

If Iran had the technology, they would be using it on us. I am quite certain they are trying at least some way to spy on us too...if not from their own devices then by buying info from other places that can and do spy on the US.

I have read that China can shut down power grids,crash planes...all sorts of stuff through hacking.

If war breaks out we will see what they can do. Could be soon.

It looks like Lockheed Martin might have an inside infiltrator giving out secrets, otherwise how would the Chinese take over control of the drone. I'd be doing a lot of checking at Lockheed Martin to see if someone is selling information.

All speculations but no evidence. Certainly MSM (International & US) are all the same. They all know how to twist and turn or create a curiosity/wonder/amusement/fear/shock/stir the pot etc etc. We will never know until the information has been de-classified in the future (not sure how many decades).

There are several scenarios & possibilities including inside job(s) involving politicians/civilians/military.

Originally posted by RussianScientists
It looks like Lockheed Martin might have an inside infiltrator giving out secrets, otherwise how would the Chinese take over control of the drone. I'd be doing a lot of checking at Lockheed Martin to see if someone is selling information.

I thought along the same line that it could not be LM as a company intentionally providing information but certainly a greedy employee/contractor/spy/mole working for LM on the highly classified projects. This has happened before and people have been arrested for it as well. The intelligence agencies overseas can still exert certain amount of pressure to obtain information from many people just the way they did during WWII and Cold War. This works both ways. However the country that spends a lot on Defense is also a bigger target for such activities due to the amount spent in R&D. However this is just a speculation on my part. As I mentioned earlier, we will never know until its de-classified after few decades in the future on some documentary on TV.

considering how much money we owe China...i dont think it's out of the realm of possibility that they were given the take down codes clandestinely, but deliberately.