{"id":286772,"date":"2016-12-22T06:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-sent-ukraine-useless-low-tech-analogue-drones-report\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T06:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:57:58","slug":"us-sent-ukraine-useless-low-tech-analogue-drones-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-sent-ukraine-useless-low-tech-analogue-drones-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US sent Ukraine useless low-tech analogue drones: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:black\">A report says US-supplied drones to Ukraine to use against pro-Russia forces utilize \u201cstone age\u201d technology that\u00a0makes them ineffective against jamming and hacking.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">According to a report published by Reuters on Wednesday, the 72 Raven RQ-11B Analog mini-drones arrived in Ukraine this summer and are part of US President Barack Obama&#8217;s non-lethal military assistance strategy to end the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">&#8220;From the beginning, it was the wrong decision to use these drones in our (conflict),&#8221;\u00a0said an advisor to Ukraine&#8217;s military, Natan Chazin, adding that if it was up to him he would see the drones returned.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The army&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:black\">Air Force command also acknowledged that the Ravens had a fundamental flaw of being easily intercepted and jammed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">&#8220;The complex is analog, therefore command channels and data are not protected from interception and suppression by modern means of electronic warfare,&#8221; it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">US officials have accepted that the drones sent to Ukraine are&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/21\/500904\/ukraine-us-drone-stone-age\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report says US-supplied drones to Ukraine to use against pro-Russia forces utilize \u201cstone age\u201d technology that\u00a0makes them ineffective against jamming and hacking. According to a report published by Reuters on Wednesday, the 72 Raven RQ-11B Analog mini-drones arrived in Ukraine this summer and are part of US President Barack Obama&#8217;s non-lethal military assistance strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}