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1 posted on 12/05/2011 8:42:10 PM PST by traumer
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Ping.


2 posted on 12/05/2011 8:43:42 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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And the Chinese will have it tomorrow.


3 posted on 12/05/2011 8:44:27 PM PST by One_American
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A very high-tech stealth drone apparently


4 posted on 12/05/2011 8:45:15 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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“is presumed to be intact since it is programmed to fly level and find a place to land, rather than crashing.”

*FACE PALM*


5 posted on 12/05/2011 8:45:40 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny ("Fair share" are the last two words I hear before I stop taking someone seriously.)
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Perhaps it would’ve been more prudent to program it to self-destruct in the event of lost communications.


6 posted on 12/05/2011 8:45:56 PM PST by davisfh
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If they are so sensitive why don’t they have a destruct option?

Load that critical stuff with some thermite.


7 posted on 12/05/2011 8:46:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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So they can`t program it to use it`s path thus far to reverse course in case of signal loss??? Or maybe program it to return to coordinates in that event?? I guess they could auto-destruct in some cases...Somebody has some splainin` to do..and some changes to make.

total fail...


11 posted on 12/05/2011 8:50:21 PM PST by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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Question -

here we have a machine that can drop precision bomb on a target while being operated by someone on the other side of the world - why is there no ‘destruct’ button?????

Maybe just another “gift’ to out enemies from the Traitor in Chief?


12 posted on 12/05/2011 8:52:22 PM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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the aircraft likely "wandered" into Iranian air space after losing contact with its handlers

that's really stealthy...

something just doesn't seem quite right about this...
14 posted on 12/05/2011 8:54:49 PM PST by stylin19a (obama - "FREDO" smart)
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the aircraft likely "wandered" into Iranian air space after losing contact with its handlers

that's really stealthy...

something just doesn't seem quite right about this...
15 posted on 12/05/2011 8:54:53 PM PST by stylin19a (obama - "FREDO" smart)
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Ike, Reagan, even JFK would’ve demanded it back. Remember those days?


16 posted on 12/05/2011 8:54:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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the aircraft likely "wandered" into Iranian air space after losing contact with its handlers

that's really stealthy...

something just doesn't seem quite right about this...
17 posted on 12/05/2011 8:54:53 PM PST by stylin19a (obama - "FREDO" smart)
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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!!!

21 posted on 12/05/2011 8:59:05 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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This remote crap is just that.... Crap. To easy for the enemy to block, or high jack transmissions.


22 posted on 12/05/2011 8:59:27 PM PST by baddog 219
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programmed to fly level and find a place to land, rather than crashing

What 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?

23 posted on 12/05/2011 9:01:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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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.


27 posted on 12/05/2011 9:09:00 PM PST by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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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!


31 posted on 12/05/2011 9:14:39 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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MI Ping


35 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)
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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?"

36 posted on 12/05/2011 9:26:34 PM PST by txroadkill (FreeRepublic.com- "A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany" - Zotted Romney Troll)
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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”.


47 posted on 12/05/2011 9:37:58 PM PST by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
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