Battlefield Contract Worker

"In other words, the person at the mobile base was the mastermind behind the hijacking of the drone, and these terrorists were helping them transport them? The missing villagers were captured by them and used as free labor. This was a premeditated hijacking. U.S. drone incident." Sergey nodded.

"No, I don't think it was a conspiracy. Because there was too much haste in it. Like these terrorists, they were obviously unprepared, and they started acting on a temporary order. Remember that How many villagers were killed? They may not agree to leave, so the terrorists killed people and forced other villagers to act with them. These do not seem to be premeditated enough." Lin Rui nodded. "It was an accidental incident."

"Accident?" Crazy Horse shook his head. "This is the stealth drone that Americans are proud of. I don't believe it was hijacked because of an accident."

"You listen to me first." Lin Rui frowned. "Actually, the flight route of the U.S. drones did not pass through here. This is the first time they have changed the reconnaissance route. The command camp will not be established near here. Instead, the hijacking strategy should be formulated according to the original route of the drone. This is the first. Second, if it has been planned for a long time, it will be better prepared. Instead of requiring the villagers to Go help them carry it, after all, the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the safer it will be."

Crazy Horse nodded. "So what do we do next? To the landing site of the drone?"

"No, there must be nothing left there. It's just a waste of time to go there." Lin Rui shook his head and said, "According to their previous actions, since they can hijack the drone, they won't leave anything that can be tracked on the scene. Traces. What’s more, the U.S. military has already conducted a comprehensive survey in that place.”

"Then what do we do?" Sergey frowned.

"Bring the map here." Lin Rui beckoned to take the tactical tablet from Sausage's hand and called up the satellite image. "This is where the drone lost contact, and this is the forced landing point. And it's going to go deep into the Sahara Desert."

"You think they went deep into the desert?" Sergey shook his head. "There's nothing there, what are they doing there?"

"They want us to think that there is nothing there." Lin Rui whispered, "I suspect that there is a camp in the desert, maybe even semi-permanent. These people may have used the ancient oasis in the desert to establish A base, but the purpose is unclear. They obviously didn’t want anyone else to find out, so when the U.S. drone was approaching the area, they were forced to capture the drone.”

"Why not just shoot it down, but capture it?" Sergey frowned.

"Maybe they had a reason not to shoot it down. They weren't sure if the drone was photographing any secrets, so they didn't want to risk angering the Americans. Hacking it by hacking could be explained as a signal glitch and lost contact. , This has a similar precedent before. So after they captured this drone, they transported it away as soon as possible. I think they will carefully analyze the intelligence and destroy it." Crazy Horse whispered.

"Destroy the information captured by the drone?" Sergey frowned.

"Of course, since humans have had wars, both sides of the war will get a lot of information from the captured weapons of the other side. Think about a complete RQ-170 drone, what can you get in the hands of someone with a heart?

First, they may read the reconnaissance intentions of the United States and the key suspects of the United States from the reconnaissance equipment carried by the RQ-170 and the data storage that may exist. In addition, it may be possible to mimic many of the RQ-170's technology, such as stealth shape, reconnaissance equipment, engines, control elements, and so on.

What worries the U.S. most is that someone might study the wreckage of the RQ-170 and read the details about its electronic tactics. For example, what is its stealth performance and where are its weaknesses; what is the frequency of its control data link, what is the frequency of radar transmission; how does its IFF work and so on. ' Crazy Horse explained.

Sausage nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of electronic intelligence leak is often the most deadly. For example, on March 16, Israeli special forces attacked the Soviet-made P-12 radar position in Egypt, dismantling the 7-ton radar and related equipment. Shipped back to Israel, and developed countermeasures by studying the performance of this radar, which greatly strengthened air supremacy over the Suez Canal. That's why Americans are so nervous. Because they have reason to worry that once the RQ-170 falls into the hands of experts , there will be a similar effect.”

Scarface shook his head and said, "This kind of cutting-edge drone software is strictly encrypted, so terrorists can't understand it."

"That's right, but terrorists don't understand it. That doesn't mean that experts in Russia and other big countries don't understand it either. What if these data leak out?" Crazy Horse asked back~www.readwn.com~Lin Rui He frowned, "Don't these drones have a self-destruction program? I mean, since the consequences of weapons falling into the enemy's hands are quite serious, the developers naturally hope that the weapons will be destroyed by themselves when they leave their control range, but why RQ -170 didn't execute self-destruct this time."

Sausage shook his head and said, "Actually, complete destruction is impossible. For example, the most advanced tanks are designed to be indestructible. How can they be completely "self-destructed"? Another example is a nuclear submarine, if it sinks and is salvaged by the opponent, it may It will cause a catastrophic leak, but if it is blown up, it will cause a more catastrophic leakage of nuclear material. Therefore, tanks and nuclear submarines may have devices that destroy some equipment, delete software and memory storage, but they are not self-destructing.

Because of the light and small body of flying weapons, and the structural damage in the air will accelerate the fall to the ground, so the self-destruction device on the aircraft is relatively common. Whether the RQ-170 has a self-destruction device is still in a top secret state, and the outside world has no way of knowing whether there is a self-destruction device on it. However, such a device does exist on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft replaced by the RQ-170. The main purpose of this type of self-destruction system is to blow up the camera on the aircraft, and it can also destroy the structure of the airframe.

In addition to self-destruction devices, the aircraft's electronics can also be removed and destroyed manually by the pilot. However, the RQ-170 is unmanned, and it is naturally impossible for the driver to destroy it. So the aircraft may be equipped with explosives that can remotely detonate and destroy key equipment, as well as programs that can destroy software's memory storage.

The explosives were not detonated. It is very likely that the controller was unable to activate the self-destruction device when the control was lost, or the self-destruction device failed for some reason, and the destructive program probably did not start. "

(End of this chapter)