Posted on 03/25/2015 10:55:19 AM PDT by ColdOne
Crashing drones are spilling secrets about U.S. military operations.
A surveillance mission was exposed last week when a Predator drone crashed in northwest Syria while spying on the home turf of President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. officials believe the drone was shot down, but they haven’t ruled out mechanical failure. Regardless, the wreckage offered the first hard evidence of a U.S. confrontation with Assad’s forces.
The mishap in Syria follows a string of crashes in Yemen, another country where the U.S. military keeps virtually all details of its drone operations classified.
Yemeni tribesmen have reported three cases in the past 15 months in which U.S. drones have fallen from the sky, pulling back the curtain on likely surveillance targets. Air Force spokesmen said they could not
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Remember when the US was competent?
Seems like a long time ago.
I even remember when the WH wasn’t the enemy.
You’da thunk our guyz would equip these beasts with a self destruct mechanism to destroy before enemies could pick’em up and reverse engineer.
I dunno, maybe I’m just tooopid.
IOW, Obama is having Hillary send the coordinates for the shootdowns via her hacked email server.
Put in bogus info for them to find.
What difference does it make now....
They are in control of the Yemen base from which we launched the drone operations.
Right?
Still though, Iran passed on material samples to the Chinese when they collected an American stealth drone...almost completely intact.
Heck, acid canisters or something. lol
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