[michigander]

You beat me buy a couple minutes. :-)

Previous posts:
Taliban again say shot down unmanned spy plane
Taliban say downs alliance helicopter,not US plane
Taliban claim shooting down of unmanned spy plane: report (more in depth news)
Spy Plane Shot Down Over Afghanistan
Taliban claims they shot down unmanned recon plane!

[Polybius]

A very misleading "teaser" headline on the part of Yahoo.

A "spy plane" implies manned flight. These unmanned drones are the military equivalent of throw-away Dixie Cups.

[krb]

No big deal. That's why we invested in unmanned technology. To paraphrase the Doritos commercial "don't worry, we'll make more."

[Aric2000]

These things are exactly what one of the posts above said, throw away dixie cups. They are SLOW!! less then 200 miles an hour I think. But they are loaded with equipment.

We have lots more where that one came from. A stinger missile could takeone of these things out in a heartbeat.

The Taliban will celebrate, just as Iraq does, but it isn't too hard to shoot one of these things down, and if they did shoot it down, well, more power to them. We have many other things that they won't be able to touch.

[Straight Vermonter]

Lots of good info on UAVs here.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Nothing against you for reporting the story, but I wish they would make it more clear in the headlines whether it was a UAV or an aircraft....I know, people will argue that there's no difference, but to me...an aircraft carries people, a UAV just carries equipment. The loss of a UAV is nothing, but the loss of an aircraft...well, that's my two cents.

[Silly]

Remember, "lost contact," not "lost." Contact does get lost with these planes once in a while, as Rumsfeld pointed out.