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Alert ! Video the Military Does NOT Want You To See ! Drone Footage of IED Explosion !
youtube ^ | 3/16/13 | Dahboo Knight

Posted on 03/19/2013 10:00:23 PM PDT by Nachum

A whistle Blower released this footage ... Mirror it , SAVE IT !! They WILL eventually remove this .... It shows the enemy Burried an IED , WHILE the drone fimed it .... NO ONE SAID A WORD TO THE US TROOPS IN THE TRUCK THAT GOT HIT !!

MAKE THIS INFO GO VIRAL ... IT SAVES LIFES !

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: drone; dronefootage; ied; video
I have no idea if the video is real or not. It is floating around Twitter now.

Drone Video: Shows IED being planted and then lets truck get blown up.

FYI

Vid at link

1 posted on 03/19/2013 10:00:23 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

If that is in fact legit, I think it should be sent to “news” organizations.

Also I’d like to personally add that if that is in fact legit, then something has gone terribly wrong in this country.


2 posted on 03/19/2013 10:10:16 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Nachum
With the traitorous vipers now running things in the WH, this does not surprise me at all. That son of a bitch and his henchmen are Hell bent on destroying us - and doing a damned good job of it!



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

3 posted on 03/19/2013 10:12:52 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Nachum

Doubt this is that horrible. That looks like one of those IED resistant vehicles, can’t remember the name. They’ll take damage, but more than likely, contents OK.

I think this was released to try to discredit either the military and/or the President. Yeah, our President sucks, but this is force intercommunication issues, seriously doubt the President is pulled in on every single IED plant.

Notice: just to be clear, I am not a fan of BHO, but I don’t buy this as being a conspiracy. Heck, it’s plausible this was fed through some server, and it missed the IED plant sequence. Additionally, like many posters said, this was not a drone, unless this was one of the hovering helicopter types. Some folks on the youtube thread alluded to camera blimps? Much more likely.... the camera base was not moving, other than minor drift. An overflight would have had some issues keeping locked/zoomed/focused. This was way too solid for a forward flying aircraft, and the angle NEVER changed.

Commentator was also a moron.


4 posted on 03/19/2013 10:21:41 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Aqua225

It appears to be a mineroller truck sweeping for the IED. I believe that is SOP.


5 posted on 03/19/2013 10:30:52 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Nachum

This mambling idiot has no credibility and neither does his video. Any “expert” would laugh this out of the room. It’ll never been seen on TV and no one will bother to take it down from Youtube cuz it’s just junk.


6 posted on 03/19/2013 10:31:02 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Aqua225

I have continued to review this... that is not a hmmv. It is definitely something beefier. For all we know this was a system test!

The soldiers or mujaheedan, looked like they were packing major kit. Could be US soldiers staging a test for all we know.


7 posted on 03/19/2013 10:31:50 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Nachum

From what I see, it is not “drone footage” at all, but video from a fixed position by a spotter or an observer. The point of view never moves as it would if it’s from a mobile platform. That being said, the observer may have been under radio silence, unable to report his observation. This even occurred in a 24 hour period from November 03, 2010 to November 04, 2010. The observer may have not been able to have warn anyone of the placement of the explosive without compromising his mission.


8 posted on 03/19/2013 10:32:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: bigbob

The funny thing is... this is exactly something I could see the press actually feigning fake concern over and pushing it as some sort of Halliburton incident. The narrator is basically starting that line of thought.


9 posted on 03/19/2013 10:40:11 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Swordmaker; Aqua225; bigbob; All

I’m asking this because I don’t know. (This is not a rhetorical question.)

Can a drone (which I know very little about since they didn’t exist when I was in service) stay on station for over 24 hours?

The video supposedly picks up from the same POV the next day, which prompts my question. My initial inclination is to be highly skeptical.


10 posted on 03/19/2013 10:44:23 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Might be one of these. They are commonly used.
http://ravenaerostar.com/solutions/aerostats/tif-25k


11 posted on 03/19/2013 10:55:30 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: shibumi

A drone is essentially a remote piloted aircraft and it could be piloted to the same location however it DOES have to move to generate lift unless it is a rotating wing (helicopter) type drone, which this video shows no sign of doing. Nor is there any jitteriness one would expect from wind or gustiness or engine vibration. This appears to be a tripod or fixed, mounted video camera with an axis it is capable of being set on a specific target and record for a period. I suspect a camouflaged forward observation post. I think it may be part of a system capable of “lighting up” a target with a laser for a targeted homed strike, hence the arrows and occasional boxed reticle device.

Another possibility is a tethered, fixed observation balloon, but those have a tendency to get shot down.


12 posted on 03/19/2013 10:59:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Kirkwood
Might be one of these. They are commonly used. http://ravenaerostar.com/solutions/aerostats/tif-25k

I very much doubt that. The angle of the video Implies an observer on a hill, not one in a balloon at 10k feet. . . With a super long telephoto which would show a long depth of field.

13 posted on 03/19/2013 11:02:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Aqua225

This is a campaign designed to garner Americans support for drones.


14 posted on 03/19/2013 11:13:03 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Swordmaker

They don’t go that high. They don’t have to. Maybe 1000 to 2000 feet is plenty. With gyro stabilized cameras, you can pull in views from a hundred miles plus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2YkRHpY0mI


15 posted on 03/19/2013 11:14:26 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Swordmaker

Here’s one over Kabul used to watch for IEDs ~2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kSbLHNOiw


16 posted on 03/19/2013 11:21:36 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
They don’t go that high. They don’t have to. Maybe 1000 to 2000 feet is plenty. With gyro stabilized cameras, you can pull in views from a hundred miles plus.

They can be used as high as 10k feet. But at the height you suggest they are easy targets for deflation by rifle shots. . . And they are easily spotted. Do you really think an enemy would place an IED in plain sight of one of these? They also slue in the wind, constantly turning as the breeze moves them. This video shows no such motion. Yes, with gyro stabilized cameras, you can, but then you need altitude. . . And telephoto lenses that have a telltale depth of field that simply is not seen here. I'm willing to bet we could calculate the distance of the camera from the angles of motion as the camera changed views. . . If we knew the distance between the two target points of interest. Astronomers do it all the time.

17 posted on 03/20/2013 1:49:22 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Aqua225
That looks like one of those IED resistant vehicles, can’t remember the name.

You can see one wheel blown off the vehicle in the video.

18 posted on 03/20/2013 4:48:43 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Kirkwood

It is a minesweeper, this video shows how it worked.


19 posted on 03/20/2013 5:20:53 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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