Pakistan Is Blaming SEAL Team 6 For Its Ability To Hack Into US Drones
Robert Johnson | Dec. 16, 2011, 3:11 PM | 3,202 | 19
A stealthy RAH-66 Comanche (front) flying in formation with a non-stealthy AH-64 Apache (back)
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Much as Iran claims to be able to do, Pakistan has come out and said it is capable of commandeering U.S. stealth drones and bringing them down quietly on Pakistani soil.
Ashraf Ansari of the Pakistan Observer reports the ability to command the drones may have come about through examining the wreckage of the stealth helicopter that came down within Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in the May 2 raid.
Prior to finding the wreckage of the chopper destroyed by SEAL Team 6, Pakistan was unaware of the existence of stealth helicopters.
They claim it hasn't taken them long, however, to understand how to reproduce the stealth coatings and decode the programming within the helicopters communications systems.
The story cites Pakistan officials as saying they are very excited about the opportunity to pull down U.S. drones operating in Pakistan's skies claiming they now have a "trump card in terms of strategic imperatives."
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