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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: Right Brother
***Perhaps it was supposed to be ‘captured’ intact. Bogus technology can throw off the enemy.***
Trojan eagle?
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:33:13 PM PST
by
DonnerT
(American Autumn)
To: maine-iac7
here we have a machine that can drop precision bomb
Uh, no. It is a RECON drone, not set up for bomb dropping. That is the predator.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:35:06 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: Right Brother
Perhaps it was supposed to be 'captured' intact. Bogus technology can throw off the enemy. I thought of the same thing. The Wright Brothers technology.
To: DonnerT
Earth to DonnerT:
It is not infeasible to have two transmitters on board a drone, a more complex one to handle targeting, etc., a different one to blow a small piece of explosive.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:37:12 PM PST
by
Rembrandt
(.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
To: Revolting cat!
... running off Microsoft Windows 2.0.
To: maine-iac7
Maybe just another gift to out enemies from the Traitor in Chief?
He would not be the first president to do that. Clinton gave them MIRV technology, a stealth plane, and who knows how much else.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:37:35 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: traumer
This is a political payoff to somebody. A nice way to betray our country. Thank you Barack Hussein Obama. I will personally water the flowers on your memorial, for this wonderful act of “diplomacy”.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:37:58 PM PST
by
runninglips
(Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
To: davisfh
Perhaps it wouldve been more prudent to program it to self-destruct in the event of lost communications. I'm thinking the same thing. Surely there must be some kind of self-destruct mechanism.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:38:21 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: traumer
...since it is programmed to fly level and find a place to land, rather than crashing. Why not just program it to RTB? Dumb. Maybe there is a flashing blue light on top...
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:39:19 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Rembrandt
Why use a transmitter? It could just be an impact sensor , an accelerometer.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:39:58 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Right Brother
*** A ‘tamper’ triggered destruct would not require any communication. That would be most effective.***
If I were an Iranian I would only approach it after it quit smoking from the tank rounds I put into it.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:40:31 PM PST
by
DonnerT
(American Autumn)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Remember those days?
There is none of that spine anywhere near DC now. It is close to the Clinton days where our technology is for sale to our enemies.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:40:55 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Surely there must be some kind of self-destruct mechanism.Yeah, like a flask of Absinthe for the pilot!
To: DonnerT
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:41:49 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: traumer
Why are these not boobitrapped to blow up if jacked with?
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:42:18 PM PST
by
guitarplayer1953
(Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
To: Revolting cat!
I made the mistake of doing two shots of that once.
I lost four days and nights.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:44:19 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Kickass Conservative
Toshiba though was caught, prosecuted, and got fined, and was bared from selling in the U.S. (for a period of time) for its theft of our technology. I believe that was about our submarine propeller silence secrets.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:45:53 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: DonnerT
Yeah, it oughta have a self-eating mechanism, that could be called something like DonnerPass!
To: txroadkill
“That thing could still be sending information home.”
...maybe sending targeting information to a drone on its way to destroy the first drone.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:47:00 PM PST
by
mouske
To: JSteff
It was.
The French facilitated it.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:47:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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