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Missing Shadow unmanned aircraft found in Colorado
Sierra Vista Herald ^
| Tanja M. Linton, Fort Huachuca Public Affairs Office
Posted on 02/10/2017 4:35:46 AM PST by SandRat
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:35:46 AM PST
by
SandRat
To: SandRat
No transponder on the aircraft?
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:41:37 AM PST
by
ImNotLying
(The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
To: SandRat
...unmanned aircraft...found today by a hiker...No one was injured, but the aircraft has sustained damage.Now there's some brilliant writing! /S
To: SandRat
The Shadow has an estimated value of $1.5 million. This could have been made for between $2,000 - $5,000. And would have had better safeguards.
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:44:49 AM PST
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: SandRat
"Search efforts were aided by the National Radar Forensics Team at 1st Air Force's Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, which specializes in tracking lost and/or downed aircraft. The team was able to reconstruct the aircraft's flight profile from start to finish by leveraging data from multiple radar returns simultaneously determining course and approximate airspeed and altitude."
But the craft was found by a hiker. Sometimes less should be said about those helping in the search.
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:52:01 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: ImNotLying
The "aircraft" is a glorified RC model.
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:53:07 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: SandRat
The aircraft ... can fly a distance of 125 kilometers.It's a lot more than 125 kilometers from south Arizona to central Colorado.
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:54:27 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Truth29
One Of Our Skynets Is Missing
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posted on
02/10/2017 4:56:38 AM PST
by
relictele
(`)
To: Yo-Yo
“The “aircraft” is a glorified RC model.”
I think battlefield technology is moving towards smaller and more numerous swarm type weapons. When they can kill you, they aren’t toys.
One reason the Army has been trying to move away from the awesome Abrams tank is its greatest vulnerability, a logistics train full of unarmored fuel trucks that can be taken out by toys.
To: relictele
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:02:58 AM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: Yo-Yo
So a 1.5 million dollar RC aircraft with a day/night, multi-sensor collection system (without a transponder) is just a throw-away toy these days I guess.
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:06:40 AM PST
by
ImNotLying
(The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
To: DuncanWaring
No kidding. That’s more like 1,200 kilometers.
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:11:04 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
To: Gen.Blather
True, I agree. My statement was not addressing the utility or lethality of the system, but rather pointing out it's diminutive size. It wasn't as if a DC-9 went down.
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:18:54 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:20:04 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Bushbacker1
I caught that also.
Public school kids .... English words and vocabulary but no comprehension.
It IS the bane of our time.
Consider this ... if they become parents, they will speak to their children in gobbledegook English.
The kids will have a head start in public school
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:21:04 AM PST
by
knarf
To: DuncanWaring
Just curious, where did you get south Arizona out of the article?
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:23:17 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
The article stated that the drone was being flown at Fort Huachuca which is located in southern Arizona. As for the 125KM range, that is the data link range to the ground station. The drone lost that link and went rouge and ended up in Colorado.
To: Yo-Yo
The article was datelined from Huachuca in AZ. The launch could have been from Carson in CO. Since the article doesn’t state the launch, I’m guessing that it was operating out of Carson.
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:33:32 AM PST
by
Bob
(Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
To: Bob
But the article says “The unmanned aircraft was part of a training mission being conducted at Fort Huachuca...”
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:36:21 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
To: Texas Fossil; SandRat; DuncanWaring
That makes sense- 125km controllable range. Otherwise it just keeps going straight. It can fly for 9 hours on the fuel it carries so it’s not inconceivable it made it to Colorado.
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posted on
02/10/2017 5:36:52 AM PST
by
zeebee
(There are no coincidences.)
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