We don't want to have a "Drone Gap"
Posted on 08/26/2014 12:06:28 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
ISIS has drones and is using them to organize their terrorist attacks. Shoebat.com obtained a video made by ISIS, filmed from a drone in mid air scoping the last military base of Assad in the area of al-Raqqa. After the drone observes the stronghold, ISIS fighters moved into the base with a full scale attack.
We made a video on the drone, with the clip filmed from the ISIS drone:
(Excerpt) Read more at shoebat.com ...
A gift from Obama. Operation Drone Runner.
I wouldn’t doubt it. This administration was supporting them against Assad. Who knows what they gave them......
We don't want to have a "Drone Gap"
Lets point out the obvious: the US provided a LOT of military tech to “the Syrian rebels”, and most or all of it ended up in the hands of ISIS.
This was equipment intended to *equalize* the fight with the Syrian Army, which has top a lot of top of the line Russian military hardware. In the hands of ISIS, it is now being used against the Iraqi Army and the Kurds.
In other words, every American leader who advocated giving this equipment to “the Syrian rebels”, hoping to overthrow Assad, were the ones who screwed up big time. And they should be remembered for this screw up.
Hillary was all in favor when she was Secretary of state, now she is backing up big time.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as well as Marco Rubio, R-FL, and John Kerry pushed hard for “arming the rebels.”
yea, they work fine until the rubber bands break or the gerbils get tired
It takes little training to operate one of those drones depending on how far the pilot is from the actual craft. Our pilots are sometimes here in the USA operating the drones overhead Iraq. Significant time delay for the command sigs to go up to a satellite then back to the drone. However, to land them it requires a pilot who is basically in visual contact with the drone due to the time delay in sending a signal to it. The ISIS gang may or may not have that capability but anyone who can fly Fight Simulator X can fly one of the drones. Landing it safely may not be so easy.
Even more obvious, just because you stick a camera on an rc copter, that doesn’t make it a drone. How are we defining drone these days? I’m sure they purchased any number of commercially available rc craft with a cam on it. There are so many options available, the idea of them using mil spec hardware is near absurd
I suspect the odds are at least 50/50 that these drones have “Made in USA” stamped on them.
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