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‘Secret’ Video Shows German Drone Crashing Into Plane on Runway
The Blaze ^ | 07/15/13 | Liz Klimas

Posted on 07/16/2013 8:21:41 AM PDT by Doogle

Just last month, a supposedly declassified video showed a German-flown drone narrowly missing a flying Afghan passenger jet. Now, another “secret” video has made its way into public view, showing an unmanned aerial vehicle piloted remotely hitting a plane on a runway in Afghanistan.

The German tabloid paper Bild (translated via Google Translate) claims to have “exclusive video footage documenting another, earlier drone debacle.” It describes the UAV as a IAI Heron ramming into a Transall C-160 Transport plane at a base in Northern Afghanistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: drone; oops
Practice practice practice......it's a loaner drone
1 posted on 07/16/2013 8:21:41 AM PDT by Doogle
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To: Chode

ping

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/15/secret-video-shows-german-drone-crashing-into-plane-on-runway/


2 posted on 07/16/2013 8:22:17 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
Maybe the pilot used his AMEX card to rent it. Its covered then.
3 posted on 07/16/2013 8:23:16 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Yorlik803

*schruggs*


4 posted on 07/16/2013 8:24:29 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Oops.


5 posted on 07/16/2013 8:24:51 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

*smiles*..my keyword


6 posted on 07/16/2013 8:25:51 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Someone just got their pink slip.


7 posted on 07/16/2013 8:27:24 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Doogle
The German tabloid paper Bild (translated via Google Translate) claims to have “exclusive video footage documenting another, earlier drone debacle.”

Ah, yes, video footage documenting...

"Flying like a bird"

8 posted on 07/16/2013 8:34:29 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: Doogle

If it was making a BUZZ sound, you've just been blitzkrieged.
9 posted on 07/16/2013 8:38:08 AM PDT by Blogatron (Hope is not a plan; Change is not a goal; Obama is not a leader.)
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To: Doogle

Wow, the Germans used to be good at this stuff.


10 posted on 07/16/2013 9:25:19 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Doogle
The Germans had leased it to Asiana.

The Asiana remote drone trainee operator only had 43 hours of stick flight time on this particular model.

11 posted on 07/16/2013 2:03:29 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: Doogle
ooops...
12 posted on 07/16/2013 2:47:24 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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