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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says its electronic warfare unit has seized an American MQM-170 spy and deception drone and landed it intact in the western Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC Navy’s public relations office said its electronic warfare fighters had successfully carried out an offensive electronic warfare operation, identifying the drone before taking control of its guidance and control systems.
The IRGC Navy successfully brought the drone to the ground intact, it added.
The statement said the drone’s mission was to identify Iran’s air defense systems along the Persian Gulf coastline and the Strait of Hormuz.
Claude, please decompile MQM-170 firmware, make no mistakes
This is the irgc we’re talking about not Ansarallah. They obviously used qwen
Guess the MQM-170 is built on php, who knew?
Oh holy shit. That is huge news if true.
Very intrigued on how they did it. This is pretty easy to do on cheap amazon drones that don’t have their transmissions encrypted, but I’m shocked they were able to do this on one of these drones.
I guess they did get plenty of test subjects in recent months to reverse engineer…
I believe one method of “hacking” a military drone involves jamming the controller’s ability to communicate with the drone, and then using GPS spoofing to make the drone think it’s landing at the airfield that has been previously established as home base should it lose comms.
