“The GPS navigation is the weakest point,” the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran’s “electronic ambush” of the highly classified US drone. “By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain.”
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I think they are lying. The US story is they lost their control/data link. The plane is designed to be very stable aerodynamically. So without control it would more or less land itself. If you look at how they display the thing, they conceal the underside of the drone. The Iranians want to say they did it.
Cheney has an interesting take–
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/cheney-rips-obama-over-iran-drone-capture/1
we should thank them for pointing out its weakness, if treu