So how can we explain the drone capture without having to assume multiple simultaneous failures?
1- Engine Failure?
Some say maybe it was just that the engine failed and the flight controller crash landed the “beast”.
Then why didn't it at least try to go back to friendly territory while gliding down?
Why didn't it send a message to the base and report the engine failure? (We know it has not, otherwise Americans would have just told us that, the very first day. But it was obvious that they were confused and didn't know what's going on.)
It doesn’t make sense unless you assume that it had communication failure, too.
Communication and Engine failing at the same time? Doesn’t make sense unless you come up with a common reason for them.
2- It just got jammed?
We can assume that in case of “lost link” it should have gone back to Base (RTB). So it couldn’t have been just jamming.
3- Flight controllers failed.
Some experts say the flying wing design is not stable. So if the flight controller had failed, it would have just fallen down like a rock. Couldn’t have remained intact.
This also implies that the drone landed “voluntarily”. But how could it “decide” do that in hostile territory. Again, it makes sense to assume that there must have been some sort of sanity checking in the drone’s autonomous decision making loop. WHY did it allow the drone to come down there?
It all makes me feel like the virus idea is the easiest to accept, without having to assume a series of simultaneous failures suddenly struck out of nowhere. But we can’t say anything for sure of course.
