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1 posted on 06/09/2016 4:58:08 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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Once upon a time there was a great country that had great scientists who produced great military machines to protect them but their leaders said, "look, we can make a great profit selling these machines to other countries", distinguishing neither allies or enemies. Surely they would not use them against us later and we can live in extreme wealth"!

Kaboom!

The End.

2 posted on 06/09/2016 5:31:51 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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The article has a typo, indicating this has a “turboprop”. Instead, this is the first Predator with a turbofan.

It has a max speed of 460 MPH, much faster than other Predators. They are also much stealthier than other versions.

As far as I know, the US government has so far not made a large buy of these. There’s a somewhat chilling promotional video on uTube showing networked flocks of these working very effectively together. These could be legitimate area denial air-to-air drones.


3 posted on 06/09/2016 5:45:55 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump '16! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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The USAF was not impressed with the Predator C.
4 posted on 06/09/2016 6:20:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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