Posted on 08/30/2014 1:26:43 PM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
08/30/2014
The Islamic State is nothing if not ambitious. Despite no record of current 'airplane' assets in their annual reports, ISIS has begun detaining and forcing Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft. According to CNN Arabic, the pilots (and their planes and helicopters) were abducted when the terrorist group gained control of Tabqa military base. It appears that if beheadings, executions, and whippings are not enough to strike fear into the hearts of the locals, then (just as America is tryiung to do), an air assault will greatly demoralize. We can only imagine how this changes Obama's strategy (and just where are all the rest of Syria and Iraq's airplanes stored?)
Via Al Arabiya,
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft, CNN Arabic reported on Saturday.
In an account reportedly associated with the militant group, ISIS said in a tweet the pilots were abducted when the group gained control over the Tabqa military airbase in Raqqa Province.
ISIS seized the airbase earlier this month. The major airfield houses warplanes, helicopters, tanks and other artillery and ammunition, which were also confiscated by ISIS, according to several media reports.
ISIS did not provide any information about the nature of the training, according to CNN Arabic.
(snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Third world hardware maintained by inbred muzzies.
If nothing else the MTBF will be extremely short.
The pilots only need to learn how to take off and read a map.
In your foil hat?
And that will be the surest way to destroy their air force that I can think of.
When I got back from Vietnam, I went to a pilot training base. We had student pilots (Muzzies) from Iran, the best of the best Iran could offer. 99.9% of them could not fly airplanes to save their a$$es. The Iraqi Air Force was no match for American pilots. I doubt that ISIS pilots would fare any better.
I love this “war-weary” crap. Unless you are currently in the military, and are not deployed, nobody has any business being “weary of war”. Lazy bastards they are, all libs. The weary can just keep putting their heads in the sand, so ISIS can chop them off more easily.
Just about a year ago Odumbo wanted to use America’s Air Force for the ISIS’s Air Force!
LOL. Don't tell me, tell Gen. McInerney. It's his theory, and an entertaining one at that.
My first thought: OK, let’s say the engines and avionics work (a huge “if” on both), then they are FORCING people to train pilots, and those pilots need, say, 1000 hours on the stick to be a marginal threat.
Not worried about this in the least.
If they were really smart, they’d put a commercial drone GPS system in them, rig up someway to work the controls, and turn them into a drone with one pre-set target and a flight plan of about 3 meters off the ground just under Mach. That might work.
“If they were really smart, they’d put a commercial drone GPS system in them,”
Where do you get those? Ebay?
LOL! You are joking, no?
Why would Syrian soldiers surrender to ISIS? It’s like the USMC surrendering to Taliban in Afghanistan.
NOTICE: It is Illegal to Sell U.S. Military Drones! DO NOT LIST ANY U.S. MILITARY RELATED DRONES, EQUIPMENT, or PARTS HERE!!! - See more at: http://uavdronesforsale.com/#sthash.uoNvjfPF.dpuf
I got it. The site does not list any military drone equipment! Why do you keep reposting it?
Not really, no.
You’d need some sort of hydraulic system to work the elevator and the rudder (and MAYBE the ailerons), but it is nothing a high school robotics class couldn’t do.
I could probably rig up a system with off-the-shelf parts all by myself in a couple weeks for under $10K. Have in radio controlled for takeoff, the computer for flight and destination. Doesn’t need to land.
Be a hell of a drone.
I’ve often thought Israel should bomb the shit out of of Iran using old 737s filled with HE. Take out the air defense and then send in the big boys.
Hmm 6 billion....I recall something about the State Dept can’t account for some funds....
“I could probably rig up a system with off-the-shelf parts all by myself in a couple weeks for under $10K.”
Your posts show that you know very little about airplanes and drones.
LMAO.
I am not talking about something that would land. Something that fly in a remotely decent manner and would crash into a target at a high rate of speed.
Here you go on the conversion of 21s to drones ... in Syria.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163576#.VANy8WNnDhE
LOL.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.