It sounds like something an industrious undergrad might do as a project for Hack a Day, but no. According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, Iraqi insurgents are managing to intercept video from Predator drones. Cost of the the tech required to accomplish this? A $29.95 copy of SkyGrabber..
UAV's such as the Predator have been successful because of the valuable, real time intelligence they provide. If the enemy has access to the same data; it doesn't simply take away the advantage US forces have in a given encounter. It force multiplies the given opfor, pushing their abilities far past what they would have been, had the US had no aerial surveillance at all.
We might as well be handing them body armor, and guided missiles.
U.G. Wilson is a 24 year old firmly in the grip of total madness.. He is a husband, a martial artist, and a software engineer living, working, and playing in Auburn, Alabama.
