No, the article clearly says that Iran severed the pilot's communication channel.
> "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
> 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
I believe this channel is over satellite, whereas the take-off/landing channel is line-of-sight like your R/C plane.
What about the argument that a military plane would have multiple levels of internal defense such as automatic destruction? I read an argument by a supposed engineer who wrote that the auto protect mode would cause the plane to fly vertically towards the ground to cause as much damage to the plane as possible, which is why he/she was skeptical that Iran had a fully intact aircraft. See http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=6868
No, the article clearly says that Iran severed the pilot's communication channel.
> "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
> 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
I believe this channel is over satellite, whereas the take-off/landing channel is line-of-sight like your R/C plane.