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Iran to exhibit seized Israeli, US drones
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:28PM
[File photo of an unmanned drone] [Two Iranian military officials inspecting the downed US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft on December 8, 2011. ]
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Iran has reportedly decided to put on display the US and Israeli Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Iranian armed forces have captured in the country's airspace in the near future.


On display will be four Israeli drones that have violated the Iranian airspace along the eastern borders and three remote controlled US aircrafts that have entered the country along either its eastern or southern borders, Tehran Times quoted an informed source as saying.

The exhibition will be open to national reporters and foreign ambassadors based in Tehran.

Latest domestically manufactured electronic warfare equipment will also feature in the exhibition.

Iran released video footage on December 8 of a US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft that had been brought down with minimal damage by the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit four days earlier.

The aircraft had been flying over the northeastern Iran city of Kashmar, some 225 kilometers (140 miles) away from the Afghan border.

Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CNN on December 6 that the drone had been part of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reconnaissance mission, involving the US intelligence community stationed in Afghanistan.

Tehran says the US spy mission was a “hostile act,” and has lodged a complaint with the United Nations over the violation of its air sovereignty by the intelligence-gathering aircraft. It has urged the world body to condemn such contravention and adopt necessary measures to end the 'dangerous and illegal' acts.

A number of countries have reportedly asked Iran for permission to inspect the aircraft.

Following days of silence on the capture and unveiling of the spy drone by Iranian armed forces, US President Barack Obama claimed on December 12 that Washington has asked Tehran to return the US reconnaissance drone.

“We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said.

Following the US plea, high-ranking Iranian officials, including the country's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, stressed the US spy drone would remain in Iran's possession as part of its national assets.

On Monday, former US Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the US president for failing to destroy the spy drone after its capture, saying Barack Obama should have ordered an airstrike to quickly destroy the downed high-tech unmanned aerial aircraft to prevent the Islamic Republic from subjecting it to examination.

On December 11, a senior Iranian lawmaker said that Iran was in the final stages of decoding the aircraft's data. Iran has also announced that it intends to reproduce the drone through reverse engineering.

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伊朗称已截获7架美以无人机
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【西班牙《国家报》12月16日报道】以色列可能卷入了美国几个月来针对伊朗的无人机暗战。伊朗官方的英文日报《德黑兰时报》昨天报道，伊朗已经掌握了“4架以色列无人机和3架美国无人机”，其中包括不久前在伊朗境内截获的RQ-170“哨兵”侦察机。为了支持这项指控，伊朗当局很快将展示这些无人机。

伊朗媒体援引官方人士的话说，4架以色列无人机是从与阿富汗和巴基斯坦交界的伊朗东部边境进入伊朗领空的，美国无人机则是从东部和南部，即从波斯湾沿岸进入伊朗的。

此外，官方媒体报道，伊朗还将邀请外国大使和记者参观展览，向他们展示伊朗俘获的无人机。以色列《最新新闻报》指出，这是德黑兰在拦截美国无人机之后展开的心理战的一部分，借此证明伊朗能够挫败外国任何空中渗透的企图以及针对伊朗核设施的情报任务。伊朗军方表示经常会与“敌人”的间谍飞机产生冲突，意指美国和以色列。

2010年2月，以色列空军透露，一批“有能力抵达波斯湾”的无人机投入使用，而伊朗在其行动范围之内。当时展示的“苍鹭”TP无人机翼展26米，续航时间超过20小时，可装配导弹。以色列参与美国针对伊朗的秘密战争可能加剧这一敏感地区的冲突，几个月来，该地区的口头威胁和敌对行动不断出现。

今年发生了多起侦察飞机进入伊朗的事件，国际社会对伊朗核计划的走向也日益担忧。1月份，伊朗革命卫队司令宣布拦截了两架飞越波斯湾的无人机。面对德黑兰的指控，华盛顿并不否认参与暗战。美国国防部长利昂·帕内塔周二在接受媒体采访时说，在伊朗和阿富汗边境的侦察行动“肯定会继续”。

由于针对伊朗的外交压力停滞，美国开展了其他秘密军事行动，以阻止伊朗核计划的进展，以色列也参与了这样的行动，以避免自己的对手发展军用核能。

德黑兰强调，如果认为铀浓缩工厂面临威胁，将进行搬迁，并称如果美国和以色列继续对伊朗进行威胁，它们将被“从地球上消灭”。

【西班牙《阿贝赛报》12月16 日报道】伊朗军方战略研究中心主任阿里·沙姆哈尼将军今天指出，如果美国继续侵犯伊朗领空，伊朗将击落更多的美国间谍飞机。

据伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社报道，沙姆哈尼强调，日前截获一架 RQ-170“哨兵”隐形无人侦察机就表明了伊朗专家的能力。

沙姆哈尼说：“伊朗伊斯兰共和国在保护它的领空方面绝不会让步。”他认为，如果继续侵犯伊朗领空，美国应受到国际准则的惩罚。

 

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After defeats concluded in Iraq, USA also lost in Iran very badly. Beaten by Iranian technologies together with Israelis.

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Report: Iran 'blinded' CIA spy satellite

European intelligence source claims Iran stuns West by 'aiming a laser burst quite accurately' at US satellite in never before reported incident. US official: If Russians provided Iran with sophisticated jamming equipment it means a lot else is at risk too

Dudi Cohen
Published: 12.17.11, 11:44 / Israel News

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Is Iran in possession of satellite jamming technology? A European intelligence source claimed Iran stunned Western intelligence agencies when it managed to "blind a CIA spy satellite by aiming a laser burst quite accurately," in a never before reported incident.



According to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, this unreported incident might suggest that the Iranians have successively gained access to jamming technology, allowing them to track unmanned aerial vehicle navigation capabilities.



Related articles:

US official: Iran assembled drone like puzzle
Officials: Downed US drone was on CIA mission
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Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Fox News on Sunday that such an option is possible.




המל"ט האמריקני, אותו הציגו האיראנים (צילום: AFP PHOTO / PRESS TV)

Iran presents the US drone (Photo: AFP)



"Some reports have said Russia sold (Iran) a very sophisticated jamming system a short time ago. Now, our military says that is not true, it came down because of a malfunction. I certainly hope that's right because if the Russians have provided Iran with sophisticated jamming equipment it means a lot else is at risk too," said Bolton.



He added that Congress should be quite concerned if Iran is in possession of jamming technology that can bring down missiles, planes and communications and guidance systems "for a whole range of our weapon systems."


Drone's Achilles' heel

An Iranian engineer, trying to decipher the secrets of the CIA drone that was flying over Iranian territory earlier this month, claimed Iranians managed to the craft's frequency, causing it to switch into autopilot mode and land on Iranian territory.



The engineer maintained that the drone's Achilles' heel is its global positioning system (GPS). He explained that by jamming the communication the UAV is forced to switch to autopilot, causing it to lose control.



According to the engineer, Iran was able to jam communication after accumulating data on other US drones which were shot down in Afganistan. Iranian experts were then able to reprogram the GPS data supposedly directing the US craft to land in Iran.


Delaying announcement of capture

Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday that his country deliberately delayed its announcement of the capture of an American surveillance drone to test US reaction.



Ali Akbar Salehi is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying Saturday that Iran's armed forces intercepted and brought down the pilotless aircraft without any foreign assistance.



On Friday US offcials said they believe the American stealth drone displayed in Iran had crashed and broke into pieces and was put back together by Iranians to make it seem it was not damaged by the crash, reported The Wall Street Journal.



Iranian military officials were appeared surveying the unmanned aerial vehicle in video clips published last week, which Tehran claimed was shot down or remotely skyjacked before managing to land the drone intact.



However US officials maintained the pilots of the UAV, which was developed by the Air Force but used by the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the incident, lost control of the drone last week.


The officials claimed the drone broke into three pieces, and added the UAV in question is one the most-sophisticated US spy planes available. Now the American intelligence officials are hard at work trying to asses how badly this incident hurt their capabilities in the region.


'Like a puzzle'

American officials believe the Iranians have managed to reassemble the drone and display it, stirring up a heated discussion among Washington lawmakers who are outraged the sophisticated UAV cannot self destruct in the event that it falls into unwanted hands.



Officials also maintained the drone was repainted by Iran in an attempt to hide the damage caused to the UAV. According to them, the actual color of the drone is charcoal-gray and not white, as it appears to be in the video.


Tehran's claim that the pilot had lost control of the craft has raised suspicion among US officials.

"They did not commandeer it and steer it to the ground," a Washington official stated. "It crashed, and they put it back together to make it look whole, like a puzzle being put back together."


Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt asserted that Iran has been developing cyber warfare which might endanger the US in the future.


“The Iranians are unusually talented in cyber war for some reason we don't fully understand,” Schmidt said in an interview with CNN on Thursday.



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Iran Breaches U.S. Predator Drone Program

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Breaching the Global Positioning Satellite security of the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel Predator Drone or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [UAV], Iran boasted about tricking the craft into landing safely on Persian soil. Launched in 1995, the Predator Drone program has become a key component of U.S. national security, especially in the war on terror. Predator drone hellfire missile strikes are the U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency’s primary tool of tracking down and attacking terrorists, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and now Iran. When the Predator Drone went down in Iran around Dec. 10, the U.S. military attributed it to engine failure rather than a major security breach by the Iranian military. More information now confirms Iran successfully hacked into the RQ-170’s GPS system, guiding the vehicle to land safely on Iranian ground.

U.S. military security experts must be very concerned about the apparent security breach now jeopardizing the overall effectiveness of the stealth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program. “If U.S. spy planes continue their aggression, we won’t be idle,” said Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s former defense minister. “We will continue to hunt down their spy planes,” exposing extreme vulnerability to the military’s Predator Drone operations. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected Presdient Barack Obama’s Oct. 12 demand to have the robotic flying machine returned. “The Americans have perhaps decided to give us this plane,” said Ahmandinejad, ignoring Obama’s requests. “We now have control of this plane,” slapping the U.S. in the face. Since seizing the U.S. embassy in 1979, Iran has developed U.S. public humiliation into a modern rocket science.
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Behind the scenes, the White House and Pentagon have been secretly drawing up contingency plans for an Iranian attack. Iran has thumbed its nose at the international community’s demand to halt its nuclear enrichment program, so advanced and technologically sophisticated that most nuclear expert believe Iran will have a workable nuclear device within the next year, if not sooner. All efforts by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency have fallen flat. Today’s Predator Drone security breach represents a direct and provocative threat to U.S. national security. Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the White House was feckless, “basically limited itself to saying please give it back.” But juggling so many national security balls, the White House can’t be goaded by disgruntled former VPs into pushing the U.S. into another reckless confrontation.

Partisan politics have nothing to do with a major national security breach in the U.S. Predator Drone Program. Military scientists must come up with an urgent security patch to prevent the Iranians—or anyone else—from hijacking the nation’s most potent tool in the war on terror “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s capture of this spy drown shows the high capabilities of our armed forces,” said Shamkhani, if effect, warning the U.S. and Israel to back off from military threats against Iran’s nuclear program. Whether admitted to or not, there’s a linkage between ending the Iraq War and potentially escalating conflict with Iran. If Iran’s technology appears superior the U.S. is going to have difficulty penetrating Iranian air, land and sea defenses. Capturing the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel gives Iran more bravado in confronting the coveted U.S. spy plane, warning the U.S. to back off future attacks.

Given the Pentagon’s initial denial of a security breach, it’s not clear whether the Iranian’s really cracked the Drone’s GPS system or whether there’s a mole inside the program. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and CIA Director Leon Panetta showed little optimism about Iranian cooperation. Clinton sees more trouble ahead, hinting, “that the path that Iran seems to be going down is a dangerous one for themselves and the region.” Showing off the downed drone, Iran sends a loud message to the U.S. and its allies: They won’t stop enriching uranium or anything else associated with the program, including atomic weapons development. Before the war drums get pounded, the U.S. must examine seriously the security breach that leaves the Predator Drone program vulnerable. If a Drone goes down in the future, there must a way to self-destruct.

U.S. national security experts must urgently evaluate whether or not there’s a mole in the military’s Predator Drone Program. If a security breach wasn’t responsible for the Iranian hijacking, then the Pentagon must work night-and-day to find the security patch needed to prevent another incident. It’s just a matter of time before Iran shares its technology with U.S. enemies, especially Pakistan, looking for some way to retaliate against Predator Drone strikes. “I surely hope the U.S. is using all kind of techniques to spy on Iran. It’s our enemy,” said terrorism expert Rachel Ehrenfeld. “The shock is that President [Barack Obama] did not order the immediate destruction of the drone, one of the U.S. most advanced spying technologies,” raising real concerns about the Drone’s security. Before the war drums beat out of control, more security should help prevent another incident.

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Iran’s Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible

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Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. Although it’s way harder to do than the Iranian boast suggests, it points to yet another flaw with America’s fleet of robot warplanes.

On Thursday, the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with an Iranian engineer who claims that Iran managed to jam the drone’s communication links to American operators by forcing it to shift into autopilot mode. With its communications down, the drone allegedly kicked into autopilot mode, relying on GPS to fly back to base in Afghanistan. With the GPS autopilot on, the engineer claims Iran spoofed the drone’s GPS system with false coordinates, fooling it into thinking it was close to home and landing into Iran’s clutches.

Again: Iranian feats of technological excellence deserve skepticism. (See the Taiwanese animation above for that.) But GPS spoofing is certainly doable. And if it’s true, it builds on a recent history of security flaws with the drones, from their unencrypted video feeds to their vulnerability to malware.

It’s possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on the missing drone, use the encrypted P(Y)-code to communicate with satellites. The notion that Iran could have cracked through the encryption “sounds like a made-for-TV movie” says John Pike, a satellite expert and president of Globalsecurity.org. ”If they could overcome the sorts of of crypto systems that would protect this drone, they would not waste their time on surveillance drones. They would be breaking into banks.”

But Iran might not have had to break the encryption on the P(Y) code in order to bring down a drone. According to Richard Langley, a GPS expert at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, it’s theoretically possible to take control of a drone by jamming the P(Y) code and forcing a GPS receiver to use the unencrypted, more easily spoofable C/A code to to get its directions from navigational satellites.

“GPS satellites transmit on two legacy radio frequencies,” Langley explains. The unencrypted C/A code used by most civilian GPS unit “is transmitted only on the L1 frequency. The encrypted P code for so-called authorized military users is transmitted on both the L1 and L2 frequency.”

Translated: If the Iranians could selectively jam the encrypted military code on the L1 and L2 frequencies — and that’s a big “if” — the drone’s GPS receiver might reach out to use the less-secure C/A code in a last ditch attempt to get directions. Without the extra protection of encryption, it would be relatively simple for Iran to spoof the receiver using the C/A code and fool the drone into thinking it was back home in Afghanistan.

However. For that scenario to work, the drone’s GPS unit would have to be programmed to use the C/A code in the event the P(Y) code becomes unavailable.

It’s also difficult to jam a drone’s GPS. “They’ve got defenses against these kinds of spoofing attacks,” says Todd Humphreys, who has researched GPS spoofing at the University of Texas’ Radionavigation Laboratory. “They mount their antennas on the top of the drones and sometimes the antennas have the ability to null out jamming or spoofing signals.”

Humphreys isn’t buying the Iranian engineer’s explanation of why the apparent RQ-170 Sentinel’s underbelly appeared damaged in the footage released by Iran. The engineer told the Monitor that the drone’s underbelly was scuffed because of a slight difference between the altitude of its actual home base in Afghanistan and the location where it allegedly landed in Iran.

“This is nonsense,” says Humphreys. If the Iranians had been able to spoof the GPS unit in the precise way they claimed, they also would have also been able to control its altitude. “That opens up two scenarios. Either [the engineer] is a user of equipment he’s got from abroad” and doesn’t understand its capabilities, “or he’s making it up.”

The spoofing danger isn’t new. “On the military side,” says Humphreys, “they’ve known about this threat for 20-30 years.”

And this isn’t the first time Iran or its proxies have exploited a long-known vulnerability on an American drone. In 2008, the U.S. military discovered Iranian-backed insurgents in Iraq had managed to intercept unencrypted video feeds from drones using widely available commercial software. That flaw was known to the Air Force as far back as 1996.

Other drone vulnerabilities have also highlighted security fears. In October, Danger Room broke the news that the cockpits at the Air Force’s drone fleet based out of Creech Air Force Base in Nevada were infected with a virus. Malware had apparently made its way onto computers because someone had been using one to play the Mafia Wars game — a stunning security faux pas.

It’s by no means clear that Iran really did spoof the drone’s GPS. But if they did. “If this was really that easy, I’m disappointed,” Humphreys says, “because a lot of very smart people have put a lot of time into this.”

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Amid Claims of More Captured Drones, a Report on Their Vulnerability
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
An Air Force report that surfaced online this week points to deficiencies in the communication network that could put American drones at greater risk in hostile areas.

After flaunting its capture of a sophisticated American spy drone on national television last week, Iran is said to be planning to invite local reporters and foreign diplomats to an even more spectacular display of pilotless hardware in the near future.

The Tehran Times, an English-language newspaper supported by Iran’s government, reported the impending “exhibition” of seven drones, three from the United States and four from Israel, along with the electronic equipment that is said to have been used to bring them down.

The news report, from a single anonymous source, was originally published online on Wednesday but was picked up on Thursday by the semiofficial Mehr News Agency, indicating that at the very least there is interest in Tehran in spreading the news more widely.

Iran has frequently accused the United States and Israel of running covert programs to spy on Iran and sabotage its nuclear facilities.

The paper said each of the drones had violated the country’s airspace, and while it did not elaborate on how or when the drones had fallen into Iranian possession, it did include quotes from a January interview with an Iranian military commander who asserted that at least two “highly advanced spy planes” had been “shot down” by Iran.

If a public display of multiple American and Israeli drones occurs, it would be the first confirmation of such Iranian assertions before the most recent capture of an advanced American RQ-170 drone in eastern Iran, which was announced last week.

American officials dismissed the notion that more drones were held by Iran.

“One would wonder if Iran has drones why they haven’t trotted them out before now,” said one United States official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject. The official added that the Iranian government appeared to be “in full propaganda blast mode right now.”

It still remains unclear how the RQ-170, one of the American military’s most sophisticated spy drones, came into the possession of the Iranian military, let alone how several more could have ended up there.

The Iranian military has said it had staged a cyberattack against the RQ-170 that enabled it to guide the remotely piloted aircraft to a safe landing. Footage shown on Iranian television last week of what appeared to be an intact stealth drone, though discoloration along one of the wings indicated possible damage and repair work.

Another possible explanation is simple malfunction.

But an Air Force report that surfaced online this week points to deficiencies in the communication network that could put drones at greater risk in hostile areas.

Dated April 2011, the report from the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board was published on Tuesday by Public Intelligence, a whistle-blower Web site that describes itself as a “repository of information in the public interest” and allows for the anonymous disclosure of documents.

“We did receive the report last week approximately one to two days after Iran said it had the RQ-170,” said Michael Haynes, the site’s administrator.

The timing of the disclosure interested the cybersecurity analyst Jeffrey Carr. “Clearly someone with FOUO access wanted this information to be made public to inform the controversy surrounding the incident,” he wrote on his blog on Thursday, using the acronym for the report’s classification as “for official use only.” He said the report outlines drone vulnerabilities that should be taken seriously:

With this report as background, the capture of the RQ-170 by Iranian forces needs to be evaluated fairly and not dismissed as some kind of Iranian scam for reasons that have more to do with embarrassment than a rational assessment of the facts.

Among the key findings of the drily written report, entitled “Operating Next-Generation Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Irregular Warfare,” is that American drones — also called remotely piloted aircraft or RPAs — are hampered by their communications systems:

Limited communications systems result in communications latency, link vulnerabilities, and lost-link events, which limits mission roles assigned to RPAs, operational flexibility, and resiliency in the face of unanticipated events.

The report, a full version of which is included at the top of this post, lists several ways in which drones can come under attacks targeting their communications:

There is a wide range of methods that a determined adversary can use for attacking RPA guidance and navigation systems. The report mentions here only three categories of threats without going into the details:

– Small, simple GPS noise jammers can be easily constructed and employed by an unsophisticated adversary and would be effective over a limited RPA operating area.

– GPS repeaters are also available for corrupting navigation capabilities of RPAs.

– Cyber threats represent a major challenge for future RPA operations. Cyber attacks can affect both on-board and ground systems, and exploits may range from asymmetric CNO attacks to highly sophisticated electronic systems and software attacks.

The report also found that the “spoofing or hijacking” of communication links could also lead to “platform loss” — i.e., a missing drone.

An Iranian engineer said to be involved in working on the captured RQ-170 told The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday that it had been just those sorts of weaknesses in the communication network that allowed Iran to get the drone:

“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.”

The “spoofing” technique that the Iranians used – which took into account precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data – made the drone “land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications” from the US control center, says the engineer.

A photo released by the official Web site of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Thursday shows Brig. Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, right, looking at what Iranian officials say is an American RQ-170 Sentinel high-altitude reconnaissance drone that crashed in Iran.Revolutionary Guards, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA photo released by the official Web site of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Dec. 8 shows Brig. Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, right, looking at what Iranian officials say is an American RQ-170 Sentinel high-altitude reconnaissance drone that crashed in Iran.

 

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外媒：激光“弄瞎”卫星 伊朗频频出招叫板美国
2011年12月19日 09:28:02
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　　【法尔斯新闻社德黑兰12月17日电】欧洲情报人员透露，伊朗已经成功地利用本国激光技术弄瞎了美国中央情报局的一枚间谍卫星。

　　据一名欧洲情报人员说，伊朗在过去两年成功地“通过激光脉冲极为精确地瞄准一枚中情局间谍卫星从而将其弄瞎”。这一此前没有报道的事件令西方情报部门为之震惊。

　　在本月早些时候伊朗侵入美国最先进的RQ-170“哨兵”无人机的控制系统后，美国《基督教科学箴言报》披露了上述消息。

　　伊朗一名不愿意透露姓名的前高级官员说：“伊朗有很多人力资源……朗跟巴基斯坦不一样。”

　　伊斯兰革命卫队副司令侯赛因·萨拉米本周也说：“从技术上来讲，我们与美国、以色列和其他发达国家的差距没有大到令截获无人机对我们来说像做梦一样……这对其他国家来说可能是难以想象的。”

　　【以色列《耶路撒冷邮报》网站12月18日报道】德黑兰方面已开始实施一项雄心勃勃的计划，以提升其网络战攻防能力，并准备投资10亿美元开发新技术和雇用新的计算机专家。

　　伊朗一直是近年来大量网络攻击的受害者，其中一些攻击来自以色列。最著名的一次攻击是来自一种名为Stuxnet 的病毒，据认为它最初破坏了纳坦兹核燃料浓缩设施中的1000台离心机。

　　伊朗最近确认一种名为Duqu的新病毒在其电脑系统中被发现，但尚不清楚造成破坏的范围。Stuxnet的目的是令工业控制系统瘫痪，并可能破坏了伊朗用来进行铀浓缩的一些离心机，但专家们说，Duqu似乎旨在收集数据，以便于未来发动网络攻击。

　　上周，西班牙语的环球电视网播放了 —个纪录片，其中就有伊朗和委内瑞拉外交官就计划对美国实施的网络攻击接受简报的机密片段。该纪录片声称，这些驻墨西哥的外交官参与了计划对包括核电站在内的美国目标实施的网络攻击。
外媒：激光“弄瞎”卫星 伊朗频频出招叫板美国
2011年12月19日 09:28:02
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　　由于担心受到网络攻击，以色列政府最近建立了一支网络特种部队，它将负责改进以色列的网络防御，并协调当地防务和高科技公司之间的新软件和防御能力的开发。

　　以色列国防军还起草了一项多年计划，预计将在未来5年内使军事能力获得重大提升。

　　【伊朗新闻电视台网站12月17日报道】伊朗议会国家安全和对外政策委员会主席阿拉丁·布鲁杰迪说，美国派间谍到伊朗是重犯RQ-170无人机的错误。

　　布鲁杰迪在谈到伊朗情报部今天逮捕一名美国间谍一事时表示，美国人在地面上又重复了他们在空中犯下的错误。

　　他说：“我认为美国人应该知道伊斯兰共和国的情报机构正监视着美国在该地区乃至全世界的一举一动。” ．

　　布鲁杰迪强调，伊朗情报机构不会允许美国采取任何有损伊朗国家利益的措施。

　　他说：“最近美国侵犯我国领空的行为是一个世界级的错误。本以为这事发生后美国不会犯另一个（类似的）错误。然而，看起来美国人仍在继续走着同一条错误道路。”

　　布鲁杰迪还说，如果再有针对伊斯兰共和国的此类事情发生，伊朗将不得不对美国采取更加严厉的应对措施。

　　他说：“美国最近采取的敌对措施是与美国（对伊朗）的敌意相一致的，但（最终）美国将输掉这场比赛，这才是重点。”

 

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美无人机遭遇“阿喀琉斯之踵”
2011年12月19日 09:21:03
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美国无人机海外分布。

全球部署意在未来战争

着陆伊朗疑被技术“拐骗”

美无人机遭遇“阿喀琉斯之踵”

本月5日，伊朗军方在伊朗东部境内毗邻阿富汗与巴基斯坦边界的地区“俘获”了美军的“坎大哈野兽”——RQ-170“哨兵”无人机。至今，围绕无人机的归还依旧是美伊吸引世界眼球的焦点。

事实上美国已经在全球诸多军事基地部署了无人机，意在下一个十年打造出其想象的未来战争。然而这次，一直被外界视为“金钟罩”的无人机，似乎遭遇了“阿喀琉斯之踵”的尴尬。

更值得注意的是，此次无人机被“诱拐”似乎已经不是什么偶发事件，据伊朗官方英文日报《德黑兰时报》报道，伊朗已经掌握了“4架以色列无人机和3架美国无人机”。如果这一消息属实，意在未来战争的无人机技术将不得不在军事用途上做重新考量。

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美国送礼

伊朗抓住无人机命门？

这架被伊朗“诱拐”的RQ-170“哨兵”无人机是美国洛克希德·马丁公司制造的高海拔隐身无人机，最早由军事观察组织于2009年披露，美国空军2010年证实这种机型的存在。

军事科学院研究员杜文龙此前在接受媒体采访时曾表示这款无人机是真正意义上的隐形无人机。如果伊朗缴获这架无人机，可以仿制无人机的外形，获得无人机材料的信息，以及无人机的载荷，包括其数据链、侦查设备、通讯设备和导航设备，这些核心技术对伊朗来说作用会非常大。而这也正是其它大国想要极力了解的尖端技术，因而美国很可能十分恐慌。

RQ-170是否真的给伊朗送了份大礼？根据美国《空军时报》的报道，这架无人机承载的数据链、GPS定位还有由臭鼬工厂做的隐身设计以及涂层都可能给伊朗带来启发。

军事评论员宋晓军认为，俄罗斯人做过专门干扰GPS研究，发一个假的GPS信号，让它的向位发生变化，然后飞出去，油耗光了，没有破坏的就落到平地了，这样对伊朗来说确实有很大的收获。

宋晓军的判断和伊朗军方的说法不谋而合。据美国《基督教科学箴言报》报道，伊朗专家利用从以前“降落的”美国无人机上获取的知识，重新设定这架“哨兵”的GPS坐标并让它在伊朗境内着陆。而这架“哨兵”根据程序认为降落地点位于阿富汗总部。

“GPS导航是最薄弱之处，”这名工程师描述伊朗如何通过“电子埋伏”俘获这架无人机时说道，“通过噪音干扰其通讯，这只鸟儿（无人机）被迫转为自动驾驶。这就相当于鸟儿失去了大脑。”

对此，军事评论员吴戈认为存在“理论上的可能”，但是实际操作起来，“伊朗目前的技术水平干扰的可能性小，很难”。“RQ-17的原理是通过美国本土发出指令，卫星中继，用无线电控制。如果伊朗要截获美国的无人机，必须干扰150公里以内的雷达信号，然而，信号一方面很弱，另外一方面是加密的，这意味着伊朗必须具备很详细的情报支撑和强大的破解技术，并且让它安全着陆。这是世界最高水平的电子‘攻击’。”吴戈判断，伊朗不太可能拥有这套先进的电子‘攻击’系统，放眼世界，俄罗斯的“汽车场”电子对抗系统才能具备这种能力（俄罗斯“汽车场”电子对抗系统能够通过电子干扰，在100×100平方公里范围内向对方发起“电子”攻击）。伊朗俘获无人机，更像“瞎猫碰上死耗子”。

美无人机遭遇“阿喀琉斯之踵”
2011年12月19日 09:21:03
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无人机易被诱杀？

被伊朗缴获的这架RQ-170型无人机事实上在此前有着辉煌的战绩。过去一年，美国中情局曾多次秘密派遣RQ-170侦察机前往巴基斯坦，并在5月借助其取得的卫星图像片段，找到了“基地”组织头目本·拉登的藏身之处，促成了美军将其击杀。

事实上，以RQ-170“哨兵”为代表的无人机确实有着诸多不可比拟的优势：首先，无人机具有更强的机动性，近代，战斗机内人体忍耐力会限制军队在快速行动期间利用飞机集中人员的数量，而无人战斗机消除了这一瓶颈，从而使得机动性大幅提高。其次，无人机和传统意义的军用飞机相比重量更小，由于重量上的优势，无人机在续航时间、加速、有效载荷等方面都有着极佳的表现。如“捕食者”无人机，其最大续航时间可以达到60个小时。此外，由于无人机的存在，使战斗机的飞行员的生命得到了最大的保障，任何一场战争的胜利都是以最少的人员伤亡和最大的战争效果为旨归的。不管何时，战争的发生是为了胜利，而不是为了剥夺生命，因此，让飞行员远离危险——无人战斗机能够挽救飞行员的生命。

然而，无人机也并非完美无缺，加上前段时间在塞舌尔群岛国际机场坠落的一架MQ-9无人机，无论在技术上还是在战术上，无人机都有着技术上的软肋：由于没有人的操作，当无人机受到外界信号的干扰，无人机就很可能出现如伊朗这次一样的“诱骗门”。

有研究指出，1986—2006年美国F-16有人机与先锋、影子、猎人、全球鹰、捕食者的故障率比较，以往来看无人机比有人机可靠性都低一到两个数量级，但随着飞行经验的积累，可靠性程度已接近有人机。然而，关键问题仍然存在，无人机采用的上行通信控制链路的频率加密问题以及干扰问题，这两个问题与有人机比存在差距。

有报道指出，路线图中无人机操纵遵循由简到繁的流程，至于最核心的数据链反欺骗干扰和抗蓄意干扰问题，仍需要时间解决。

为此，吴戈认为，目前美国的无人机领先世界，与其他国家已经拉开很大差距。无人机必须在自主性上有越来越多的进步，通过软件升级，实现人工智能——最终目标是让无人机拥有自己的思考能力，遥控空战。“目前的无人机和卫星的运作原理有一定差距，依然需要人的操控。”

同时，除了抗干扰和频率加密，避撞也是无人机亟需解决的难题。在空中管制的情况下，无人机无法实现有人机在空中的直观视觉和判断，容易出现紧急情况。

此外，在美国未来的发展图景中，无人机和有人机如何协同也是个大问题。吴戈预测，在10—20年内，美国有人机依然不可能被无人机取代，但是可能出现一种趋势，无人机的控制不一定只限定在地面上——有人机的飞行员在空中也可以下达指令，同时，随着无人机自主性的强大，将可能出现一个人控制一个无人机中队。记者 赵琦玉 实习生 郑骙

 

[halsey02]

The Iranian obviously forgotten to read "Helen of Troy".

 

[singveld]

probably someone in usa sold iran the secret to disable the drone. this kind of things can happen from time to time.

 

[matamafia]

Welcome to the CYBER-WAR ERA.

 

[kopiuncle]

fight and kill each othe lah...kill all and finish with all...let mother earth rest in peace...fartup human monsters!!!!!!!!!...using all sorts of hi tech to kill people...fuck lah!

 

[halsey02]

probably someone in usa sold iran the secret to disable the drone. this kind of things can happen from time to time.

Don't think so, more than the eye can see. Small men will climb out of the drones, when not watched! Don't think the USA or the Jews will allow their drones to be captured.