Don’t be fooled, it was clearly a Skynet test run
Navy lost control of flying drone for a little bit.
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August 27th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Hmmm.
It’s programmed to land if it loses its control signal.
It didn’t do that.
That means that it didn’t KNOW it lost its control signal.
Which tells me that something in the same frequency band was being received that it was interpreting as a control signal, so instead of landing, it just maintained course, speed and altitude.
What THAT tells me is that these things are hackable and/or jammable.
I’d bet the actual control signals are encrypted, but if someone can figure out what signal this thing was picking up that it interpreted as a control signal, a transmitter could easily be produced that could block control of the drone from its operators.
Interesting.