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Posted on 09/11/2001 2:16:04 PM PDT by I_Publius
They shot down one of our planes in Iraq! See the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1537000/1537128.stm
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 (The spy plane) was used to provide the American enemy with information concerning our installations, vital sites and our air-defence formations  |
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Iraqi official
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Maj. Brett Morris, spokesman for a US-British military task force in the Persian Gulf, told the Associated Press the coalition force had lost an unmanned aircraft on Tuesday similar to a US spy plane lost last month.
INA said the plane was shot down at 1130 local time (0730 GMT) and wreckage from the "highly advanced" plane was being collected.
The news agency quoted an unnamed Iraqi Air Defence Command official as saying: "The plane was coming from Kuwaiti territory and it was used to provide the American enemy with information concerning our installations, vital sites and our air-defence formations."
Second plane shot down
If confirmed, it will be the second US spy plane shot down in Iraq in the past two weeks.
Iraq said its forces shot down an unmanned Predator plane in the Basra area, 560 kilometres (350 miles) south of Baghdad on 27 August.
The US Defense Department acknowledged losing a plane at that time but did not confirm the circumstances.
The United States and Britain frequently fly sorties over no-fly zones over north and south Iraq, imposed after the Gulf War.
Iraq refuses to recognise the legitimacy of the zones and has stepped up efforts to shoot down allied planes over the past few months.
Is this the 2nd, or 3rd drone?
Blow Baghdad just in case, then arm the Kurds.
honestly the Iraquis are being toyed with.... I could go to the hobby store and buy a dozen of these, boost the antennaes, and have a lot of fun buzzing anti aircraft stations in Iraq.. were I an american commander in charge of recon... I would do it every day, just for fun....
If you cannot hit a radio controlled P-51 scale model with shot gun, at 150 feet, what business do you have in the Anti aircraft business.
These folks cannot be reasoned with only silenced. Sad but true. They want a war, they will have it.
(Gary Powers ring a bell?)
When they swat a drone, they get a basket of busted bolts, and we get their latest frequencies and AA tactics.
(I'm amazed anyone intelligent enough to click on FR has to ask such a question.)
LOL...it has always amazed me that guys are just born knowing all this tuff, and wimmen have to learn it along with a whole bunch of other shit.
Regards your way....
"Spy plane" has a connotation of illegitimacy. Which is exactly why BBC (and Reuters and CNN) prefer this designation.
Reconnaisance, however, has a connotation of legitimacy. Inasmuch as the unmanned Predator was engaged in reconnaisance over an area where the US has a legitimate military presence under international law, the term "unmanned recon plane" is a more accurate and textually precise definition.
Not that BBC (or Reuters or CNN) would give a damn...
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