Russia says intercepted US drone over Crimea: arms group

news.yahoo.com ^ | March 14 2014 | No Attribution

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well its not exactly Blackhawk down. :-)

[Sacajaweau]

Russia has its own drones. And I would bet that they are superior to ours.

[Sacajaweau]

http://rt.com/news/russian-defense-innovation-fair-803/

[UCANSEE2]

...and declares marshal law and himself as King.

It's "martial law".

[TangledUpInBlue]

First thing I thought of.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I doubt it’s a US drone. Our stuff doesn’t have to fly so low."

Isn't the ability of drones to fly low considered to be one of their FEATURES, so as to avoid radar?

[mac_truck]

Whats “amazing’ is the level of condescension from twits like you.

[Sacajaweau]

Apparently the drone wasn't that low, was not seen but was picked up electronically...overrode that system and brought it down.

Imagine our guy going...damn it....damn it....as he realized it had been sabotaged.

[tcrlaf]

“It was possible to break the link with US operators with complex radio-electronic” technology”

This is why you will NEVER be able to replace the human in the cockpit, no matter how much the bean counters demand it.

A fleet of drone is just so much expensive junk if you can’t communicate with them.

[VanDeKoik]

Well its not exactly Blackhawk down. :-)

And in this case, the pilot is A-OK!

[tcrlaf]

A drone over a friendly country isn’t a problem, diplomatically. A drone over territory in dispute is a different matter entirely. This is injecting US military assets into someone else’s problem.

This isn’t Libya Obama is messing with. Poke the Bear enough, and it will eventually poke back.

[Constitution Day]

I thought Baldwin was pretty good in that movie at the time and even since. This movie is what - around 25 years old? We had no way of knowing what a liberal a55hat he was back then. I still hate him today, but can appreciate his acting in the movie.

Connery and Fred were brilliant. James Earl Jones was good, too.

[McGruff]

[Georgia Girl 2]

I hate to be the one to tell you but the Russian drone technology lags us by about 20 years which is one reason they are not a military threat to anybody except their immediate neighbors.

[Georgia Girl 2]

:-)

[Army Air Corps]

Unexpected!

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-spends-afternoon-in-garage-restoring-classic,35505/

[Portcall24]

Had an AF friend years ago that flew Buffalo Hunter missions with C-130 Air Force Bugs were assigned to the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing of the Air Force Strategic Air Command. In the autumn of 1968, the Air Force began using the AQM-34 designation, rather than BQM-34, to classify its reconnaissance Lightning Bugs operating in Southeast Asia. The first Air Force Lightning Bugs operating in the theater…were manufactured and deployed under the Air Force Compass Bin and Buffalo Hunter programs. These Lightning Bugs got down and dirty at as low as 500 feet, where the antiaircraft gunners did not see them until they were practically gone. They flew 1.773 low-altitude missions between January 1969 and June 1973. From Attack of the Drones: A History of Unmanned Aerial Combat by Bill Yenne

[Steve_Seattle]

"Imagine our guy going...damn it....damn it....as he realized it had been sabotaged."

It's time for someone to Photoshop Pajama Boy at the controls in the drone command center.

[Tonytitan]

... Russian drone technology lags us by about 20 years which is one reason they are not a military threat to anybody except their immediate neighbors.

How right you are! This is not the 1980's. The vaunted Soviet Red army is a memory. Their massive numbers are rusting in storage, in hangars or at harbor and the men are barely sober. To be sure, they have some updated stuff(S-300/400, Borei and Yasen boats, Topol-M ICBM) but it's prototype or engineering shakeout or too new to have much experience with. We're not talking about a professional, battle tested military machine here.