[Colored pencil drawings. One big explosion. One military aircraft.]

December 13, 2011

American Military Blunder

I find it really hard to believe our military, as advance as they supposedly are, would not build a drone with a self-destruct ability to fall back on in case of a capture. I hope at the very least it had an anti-hacker program that would detect an unauthorized intrusion and erase itself.

The stealth tech isn't the biggest deal. Look up the Chinese stealth fighter, the Chengdu J-20, that is now in use. The problem with the drone captured by Iran is the data. Now they know how we communicate with the drones, making other drones right now sorta useless since we don't know if they can take over control of another based on info they acquire from the captured sample.

It's like a kid playing with his remote controlled plane being all pissed off because the poor kid down the street found a remote to take it over and crash it so he can run and grab it for nose-thumbing rights. Do you seriously think the poor kid—if not himself, then one of his friends—can't tinker with it and figure it out?

Remove the boarders for a moment and think without race or religion. Imagine the truth of the matter. It was made by humans, humans have it. Humans can take it apart and humans can most certainly make another.

Me personally, I would have put in a small insulated box that would have the ability to detect foul play within the drone's operating system and implode upon itself. If not, just explode with enough force to take out a building. I'd give the surrounding enemy like a two minute warning beep.

But also we have to consider the possibility that the drone is a decoy lost on purpose. Such a hoax would be a good spy move. Make the enemy think they really got their hands on something when all the while it's gathering info and broadcasting their location. Before it explodes!