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| The Poor Man's Air Force? Rebel Drones Attack Russia's Airbase in Syria - bellingcat |
| 2018-01-13 |
| Posted by:newc |
| #6 Russians said they tapped in to a data port and were able to bring seven of them down. The drones' flight path was programmed and supposedly impervious to jamming. A nearby Russian ELINT unit was able to tap into the drones' data port and to bring some of them down. |
| Posted by: badanov 2018-01-13 22:05 |
| #5 if they had used these RC planes as cheap models of a swarm the attack would have been much more effective. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-01-13 21:56 |
| #4 Doesn't add up. Allegedly these drones had over the horizon capability (not bargain basement). They were a coordinated, even slaved attack but not synchronized to qualify as swarming. The Russians just happened to have the correct assets available and alert to tag all the inbounds within a very narrow reaction window. My take is the Russian version of a "red team" conducted a planned exercise simulating a multiple vector deliberate attack to test the resilience of the SOP defenses. That explains the field expedient drones, the lack of penetration/damage. Otherwise it would seem to simply be a probing attack against a brittle (not hard) target. Note there is no independent confirmation that the mortar round payloads were live or inert |
| Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 2018-01-13 20:56 |
| #3 Excuse me, P-8. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-01-13 10:00 |
| #2 They're also upset that there was an E-8 cruising past in the Med when this all went down. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-01-13 09:59 |
| #1 ...Although the JV has figured out how to use drones, I am extremely skeptical of the 'swarm attack' claim. I'm thinkin' - and your mileage may vary, of course - that the Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-01-13 06:51 |