Battlefield Contractor

"That is to say, the talents of the mobile base were the masterminds of hijacking drones, and these terrorists were helping them transport? The missing villagers were captured by them as free labor. This is a premeditated hijacking. The U.S. drone incident." Sergey nodded.

"No, I don't think this is an action after a conspiracy. Because there are too many hasty elements in it. Just like these terrorists, they are obviously unprepared, and they started to act when they were ordered. Remember that A few villagers who were killed? They probably did not agree to leave, so the terrorists killed others and forced other villagers to act with them. These are not like enough premeditated situations." Lin Rui nodded. "This is an accident."

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

"Listen to me and finish talking." Lin Rui frowned. "Actually, the U.S. drone's flight route didn't pass through here. And this is the first time they changed the reconnaissance route. If these people intend to hijack them A command camp will not be established near here. Instead, a hijacking strategy should be formulated based on the original route of the drone. This is one of them. The second is that if you plan for a long time, you will be better prepared. Instead of asking the villagers, Go and help them carry it. After all, the fewer people know about this kind of thing, the safer it is."

Crazy Horse nodded, "Then what shall we do next? Go to the landing place of the drone?"

"No, there must be nothing left there. Going there is just a waste of time." Lin Rui shook his head and said, "According to what they did before, since they can hijack the drone, they won't leave anyone on the spot that can be tracked. Traces. What's more, the US military has already conducted a comprehensive survey of that place."

"Then what shall we do?" Sergey frowned.

"Bring the map here." Lin Rui beckoned to take the tactical tablet from Sausage and called up the satellite image. "This is the location where the drone lost contact, and this is the point where it was forced to land. And we will go deep into the Sahara Desert."

"Do you think they have entered the depths of the desert?" Sergey shook his head. "There is nothing there, what are they going to do there?"

"They hope we think there is nothing there." Lin Rui whispered, "I suspect that there is a camp in the desert, and it may even be semi-permanent. These people may have used the ancient oasis in the desert to build They established a base, but the purpose is not clear. They obviously did not want others to discover this, so when the U.S. drone approached the area, they were forced to capture the drone."

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

"Perhaps they have a reason not to shoot it down. They are not sure whether this drone has captured any secrets, so they don't want to risk angering the Americans. Instead, they use hackers to hijack it, which can then be explained as a signal failure and loss of communication. There have been similar precedents before. So after they captured the drone, they transported it away as soon as possible. I think they will analyze the information carefully and destroy it." Crazy Horse whispered.

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

"Of course, since mankind has had a war, the two 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 a caring person?

First, they may read the reconnaissance intent of the United States and the key suspects of the United States from the reconnaissance equipment carried by the RQ-170 and possible data storage. In addition, it may be able to imitate many RQ-170 technologies, such as stealth appearance, reconnaissance equipment, engines, control components, and so on.

What worries the United States the most is that someone might study the RQ-170 wreck and understand the details of its electronic tactics. For example, what is its stealth performance and where are its weaknesses; what is its control data link frequency and radar transmission frequency; how its identification friend or foe works, and so on. "Crazy Horse explained.

Sausage nodded, "Yes, this kind of electronic intelligence leaks are often the deadliest. For example, on December 16, 1969, Israeli special forces attacked a Soviet-made P-12 radar position in Egypt and combined the 7-ton radar and The relevant equipment was disassembled and shipped back to Israel. Countermeasures were formulated by studying the performance of this radar, which greatly strengthened the air superiority over the Suez Canal. That's why the Americans are so nervous. Because they have reason to worry that RQ-170 will fall. In the hands of experts, there will be a similar effect."

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

"Yes, but terrorists don't understand it. This doesn't mean that experts from Russia and other big countries don't understand it either. What happens once the information gets out?" Crazy Horse asked rhetorically.

Lin Rui frowned, "Is there no self-destruction procedure for this type of drone? 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 when they leave their control. Why did RQ-170 not self-destruct this time."

Sausage shook his head and said, "In fact, complete destruction is impossible. For example, the most advanced tanks are developed for indestructibility. How can they be completely "destroyed"? Another example is a nuclear submarine. If it sinks and is salvaged by the other party, it may be Cause a catastrophic leak, but if it is blown up, it will cause a more catastrophic leak of nuclear material. Therefore, tanks and nuclear submarines may have devices that destroy some instruments and equipment, delete software and memory storage, but they are not self-destructive.

Because flying weapons are light and small, and the structure damage in the air will accelerate the speed of falling to the ground, self-destructing devices on airplanes are more common. Whether the RQ-170 has a self-destructing device is still in a top secret state, and the outside world has no way of knowing whether it is equipped with a self-destructing device. However, the U-2 reconnaissance plane replaced by the RQ-170 does have such a device. The main purpose of this type of self-destruction system is to blow up the camera on the aircraft, but also to destroy the structure of the aircraft.

In addition to the self-destruct device, the electronic equipment on the aircraft can also be deleted and destroyed by manual operation by the pilot. However, the RQ-170 is unmanned, so it is naturally impossible for the driver to destroy it. Therefore, the aircraft may be equipped with explosives that can remotely detonate and destroy key equipment, as well as programs that can destroy the memory storage of the software.

The explosives have not been detonated. It is very likely that while losing control, the controller has been unable to activate the self-destruction device, or the self-destruction device has failed for some reason, and the destructive program may not have been activated. "