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2018-01-16 Arabia

Houthi capture of US Navy underwater drone

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Posted by 3dc 2018-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 UCV specs

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-16 00:11|| 2018-01-16 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 First the stealth drone. No explosives.

Now this. No explosives.

I see a pattern emerging.

Posted by gorb 2018-01-16 00:15|| 2018-01-16 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 A year later, perhaps now we have a glimpse of just what the 'riverine' boats captured by Iran were really doing.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-16 13:28|| 2018-01-16 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, two(2) years.
I seem to be suffering some temporal compression.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-16 13:49|| 2018-01-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I fail to understand why these drones don't have self-destruct mechanisms that go off if they are tampered with.

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-16 13:50|| 2018-01-16 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Also, I don't like the feature where if the drone AI gets confused it automatically surfaces and attempts to contact it's handlers by WiFi. That is just a plain idiotic feature just waiting for exploitation like this Houthi mission.

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-16 13:53|| 2018-01-16 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I suggest that the NAVY change the programming so if it gets confused it Self-Destructs!

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-16 13:54|| 2018-01-16 13:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Hold on the self-destruct until a recovery team without the secret password pulls it from the water.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-16 14:36|| 2018-01-16 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 or load a Stuxnet V3.0 virus on it and let it be captured

Posted by Frank G 2018-01-16 14:49|| 2018-01-16 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 or load a GPS transmi...... oh wait !!!!

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-16 14:56|| 2018-01-16 14:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Or put a Hornet fuel system in it, and it would never get out of sight of the Mother ship....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-01-16 15:47|| 2018-01-16 15:47|| Front Page Top

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