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To: Gadsden1st

No, Predators do not have a kamikazi dive bomber mode. And it’s too valuable up above. When the 25-odd Americans finally fled to the airport, it was critical that they have that eye in the sky.


31 posted on 11/04/2012 6:13:30 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Wasn’t the second one available, the first out of fuel. Couldn’t the drone running low on fuel have “landed” on the mortar team if it didn’t have a “dive bomer mode”? Not trying to be a “wise guy” but it seems like some kind of “out of box” response may have helped. If painting a laser on someone is used to make them run away, seems like a drone buzzing might cause aiming issues for a mortar team. I obviously don’t know anything about what I am asking, that is why I am asking you. Are you saying there is no way the low on fuel drone COULD have be used other than as a camera platform? If YOU were in control of the drone and saw YOUR team under fire from a mortar position, YOU would has simply flown away?


37 posted on 11/04/2012 6:26:27 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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