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- Author: Clive Cussler
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Chesapeake Bay
Nine months ago
The X-47B prototype attack drone made a sweeping turn, only minutes
away from the target eighty miles northwest of the Chesapeake Bay BridgeTunnel. Frederick Weddell adjusted the frequency-hopping algorithm of the
jamming transmission. His mission was to block the control signal coming
in from the drone’s operator at Naval Base Ventura County in California
and recode its onboard navigation system, causing the aircraft and its one
thousand pounds of fuel to smash into a derelict barge.
Even without the two smart bombs it was capable of carrying, the drone
could cause a deadly terrorist attack on the U.S.
Weddell relished the challenge. “We’re gonna do it,” he said to no one in
particular, although there were two other men in the small room filled to the
brim with electronic equipment and displays. The eighty-foot
communications vessel anchored near the mouth of the Potomac was
otherwise unoccupied except for its captain, who was topside on the bridge.
Weddell adjusted his wire-framed glasses and looked up at the largest
monitor to check the view from a camera on the deck. The drone was in its
first turn after takeoff, a white wedge against the orange glow of dusk
behind it.
To accomplish their mission, jamming the control signal wasn’t enough.
If the drone’s contact with its controller was lost, it would revert to
autonomous mode and return to its base at Naval Air Station Patuxent
River, the Maryland flight center that served as the test facility for most of
the Navy’s aerial weapons systems. The key was to establish a new control
authorization so that the coordinates for an alternative target designation
could be loaded. In this case, the unmanned aerial vehicle would be
instructed to crash into the barge at five hundred miles per hour.
This attack was the worst-case scenario for the Pentagon.
No one—not
the drone designers nor the Joint Chiefs—thought that the onboard systems
could be hacked. But ever since a top secret RQ-170 Sentinel
reconnaissance drone crash-landed in Iran, top brass had demanded that the
Air Force and Navy prove that their communications protocols were
unbreakable. Apart from losing a drone that cost hundreds of millions of
dollars to build, the crash had given Iran a free peek inside one of
America’s most advanced pieces of technology. If the Iranians could bring
it down, they might be able to wrest a drone’s control away from its
operator. The military was pouring funds into a program to make sure that
never happened.
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