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New pilotless plane headed for Afghanistan
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| 08/28/07
Posted on 08/28/2007 8:05:56 AM PDT by nypokerface
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To: Sax
The X-45 looks to be the one the Russians copied.
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posted on
08/28/2007 8:56:29 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: BOBTHENAILER
Great story. Many thanks to your family and your son. He was over there for three deployments, and part of his job was to keep manned aircraft off the altitude assigned to the UAVs.
He now has been assigned to Research and Development in Las Vegas. He set up the instrumentation for acceptance evaluation for this bird.
To: agere_contra
But with all these new UCAVs coming out all over the world Im worried that were going to run out of cool names for new ones within as little as fifteen years. After that theyre all be called Edsel or Marvin.Nah, the suits will just start calling them "Predator II" or "Reaper II" and the troops will give them useful names like "toad-sticker" or something...
To: B-Chan
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:35:49 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: B-Chan
More cowbell, dude!!!
;o)
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:36:32 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: stinkerpot65
((cowbell*=cowbell)*=cowbell)++;
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:39:25 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: B-Chan
Don't forget my parody:
Don't Fear The Freeper
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:41:13 AM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: nypokerface
New pilotless plane headed for Afghanistan ![](http://www.whatdvd.net/WhatDVD-Graphics/main/734.jpg)
Elaine Dickinson: There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:42:27 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("We control this House, not the parliamentarians!” -Congressman Steny Hoyer (D))
To: Sax
I am in awe of our technological prowness.
God bless those who work behind the scenes to make it all happen.
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:44:40 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: Sax
What a stealthy little beauty!
Strange, I thought we had a thread last month that said we had already deployed the squadron to Iraq. Maybe I misread that earlier article.
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posted on
08/28/2007 9:51:06 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: nypokerface
And the air force is trying to take it away from them.
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posted on
08/28/2007 10:04:05 AM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: ArrogantBustard
"USAF wants the world to know about this beast."
Ummm, this is an Army program. The Air Force is trying to
kill both this and the Navy's UCAV programs, and is demanding a monopoly on all UCAV's that can fly over Angels 3.5; not surprisingly, the sister services are telling them to shove it, and are lobbying Congress to keep USAF from getting that monopoly.
This is a pic of the Navy's carrier-launched version that's coming, the
X-47B NUCAV.
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posted on
08/28/2007 10:26:31 AM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: DesScorp
Ummm, this is an Army program. Interesting ... interservice nonsense never surprises me, but in this case:
1) They interviewed the general in charge of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base. FWIW.
2) The insignia on the "Reaper", just forward of the wing root has a very "Air Force" look to it. FWIW.
3) check this out
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posted on
08/28/2007 10:35:12 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Correction ... the General is in charge of Intelligence at ACC.
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posted on
08/28/2007 10:36:46 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: muffaletaman
To: Sax
Threre are plenty of UAV development activities that are public, if not common, knowledge.
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posted on
08/28/2007 1:53:37 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(As heard on the Amish Radio Network! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1675029/posts)
To: ArrogantBustard
Atlantic Coast Conference? What’s the general’s intel on the Tarheels/Bluedevils/Wolfpack hoops this year?
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posted on
08/28/2007 2:15:50 PM PDT
by
Zhangliqun
(The Blue and Gray had infinitely more in common than the Blue and Red. We're headed for Civil War.)
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