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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by UnoriginalGuy on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:54PM (#10779166)
What strange is, if you read the article, an Iranian engineer claimed that it was GPS spoofing, but the US claims it's primary means of navigation is an inertial navigation system (which seems highly believable given up sketchy GPS can sometimes be).

Plus the Iranians have a video of it smoothly landing at an Iranian airbase (which completely discredits the US's assertions that it crashed, and broke up).

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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by sbierwagen on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:01PM (#10779221)
IMUs are wildly expensive, and still have quite a lot of drift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752294

Certainly the RQ-170 has an IMU, and I could believe it might use it as the primary means of navigation, but it's almost certainly corrected by GPS, which gives you a means of altering the drone's path by GPS spoofing.

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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by HiLo on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:08PM (#10784993)
I thought this was the one where they used that like $35 streaming software or whatever (I'm a finance guy, I know that probably sounds stupid) and were able to take over the controls, hence the landing?
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