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Jack Linthicum

John P. Mullen wrote:
Mark Borgerson wrote:

In article .com,
says...

Andrew Swallow wrote:

Many UAVs are flown under remote control. Radio direction finding may
permit the location of its headquarters to be found.

Good point, few countries have enough satellite bandwidth to manage
UAVs the way the US does, so unless Iran is buying bandwidth from
someone else, they'd have to be RC controlled UAVs.

Fully autonomous UAVs are not common today---but they probably will
be in another few years. They would be particularly good
for surveillance of large targets like a CVBG. The UAV could
send out data and wait for very generic microburst commands
like "circle left, 20mile radius". That would make it hard
to attack the controller. While it may be possible get a DF
location on a randomly-timed, 10millisecond, spread spectrum signal
from a mobile command post, it might also be very expensive.

And, you'd have to be looking for it. There is a lot of spectrum to
monitor.

John Mullen

The Navy does spend money on things other than $800 toilet seats.