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U.S. Military Sources: Iran Has Missing U.S. Drone
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Posted on 12/05/2011 8:42:02 PM PST by traumer
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To: traumer
Looks like they should have hired the guy in the Toshiba Commercials to figure out what should have been included in the Drone.
Put WiFi in that TV!!!
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:59:05 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
To: traumer
This remote crap is just that.... Crap. To easy for the enemy to block, or high jack transmissions.
To: traumer
programmed to fly level and find a place to land, rather than crashingWhat the hay?? It isn't programmed to self-destruct? It is programmed to courteously turn itself over to our enemies? At least 15 years ago it required Clinton to give our secrets away to the Chinese. Now our technology does it all by itself. This is insane. Or is this just Obama further gutting US defense?
To: unkus
If it has the software to find a place to land, why not software to go back to it's origin, or go to a preprogrammed set of coordinates and auger in with a reasonable amount of fuel.
This goes back to the "Who needs pilots anymore" argument. A military pilot would have thought of this kind of stuff.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:02:52 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Absolutely. This is Obama’s Loral Space and Technology moment where they feign a “malfunction”. Savage spent the bulk of his show on this topic today.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:03:18 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: USNBandit
Why not simply self destruct?
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:07:24 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: traumer
I wonder two things:
1. I wonder if this was intentional and the bird in question is a spoof.
2. I wonder why drones are not equipped with a very small detonator which can be remotely activated to destroy the craft.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:09:00 PM PST
by
Rembrandt
(.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
To: VicVega
When Zero gets off his 17 day muslim vacation, he will apologize to the Iranians.
He’ll do that once Air Force One is flying over the Pacific.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:09:00 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: traumer
Lest we forget the little tidbit that came out a couple of months ago- the flight control computers for these drones were found to nearly all be infected with computer malware/viruses/trojans that they military was not able to keep cleaned off. Is this connected? Who knows - but something smells very badly and its not just the funk of the rotten Obama administration (though there is little doubt that his crap is near the top of this pool of poo).
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:09:38 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: One_American
And the Chinese will have it tomorrow.Well, the components were likely manufactured there.
To: traumer
Next time, the designers (who might as well be hanging their hats in China or India performing outsourced jobs) oughta read FR for great ideas on how these machines should be programmed, as evidenced by the great ideers on this very thread. Stupid designers! They should of!
To: Revolting cat!
You can blame that crap on the bean counters of the world.
You got to go with the lowest bidder, you got to prefer minority of female owned subcontractors...
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:15:59 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: unkus
That would be easy, but would require all sorts of ordnance safety procedures, yadda, yadda. You could make it a charge that you only load in a combat zone and arm just like the other ordnance, at the end of the runway.
Another issue is the propensity of these UAVs to crash on recovery. I hope this one is easier to land than the predator series.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:21:04 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: unkus
It wasn’t that long ago the Obama administration simply ignored the green revolution riots in Iran while they shot their own in the streets. Then he goes on to support revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya as “popular uprisings”, the last with help from NATO. Now this technology transfer on a silver platter. If you connect the dots and stand back, you will see the likeness of the prophet Mohammed.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:21:33 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; Azeem; ...
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:26:02 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
To: traumer
You've got to wonder, maybe we landed it on purpose just to see where they took it. That thing could still be sending information home.
I picture a bunch of Iranians standing a round it and one of them saying, "Hey Abdul, is that your watch ticking?"
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:26:34 PM PST
by
txroadkill
(FreeRepublic.com- "A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany" - Zotted Romney Troll)
To: Rembrandt
***1. I wonder if this was intentional and the bird in question is a spoof.***
Wouldn't want to connect my computer up to it. Suxnet anyone?
***2. I wonder why drones are not equipped with a very small detonator which can be remotely activated to destroy the craft.***
If you have lost all commuhnication how do you expect to detonate?
I don't buy the story at all. We are not THAT stoopid! Are we?
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:26:58 PM PST
by
DonnerT
(American Autumn)
To: mylife
If they are so sensitive why dont they have a destruct option?Perhaps it was supposed to be 'captured' intact. Bogus technology can throw off the enemy.
To: Right Brother
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:30:31 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: DonnerT
If you have lost all commuhnication how do you expect to detonate?A 'tamper' triggered destruct would not require any communication. That would be most effective.
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