The idea of what they did exploits the fact that gps is nothing more than a rf signal that works on what's called "capture effect" in other words loudest signal wins. Blast a kilowatt of rf at the drone to put it in autopilot... and then add the gps data stream rf to it with the proper heights etc added and bingo now the drone has been jammed and the gps receiver is spoofed to Iran. Stupidly simple.
Did the US really think that no-one could figure this out? Wouldn't a standard mode of analysis of a million dollar piece of apparatus be to figure out HOW to break it so it doesn't really happen?
I live in a different world I guess that's what I'd do before I lost it. But we're talking the govt here
