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To: Qatar-6
...SLOW, fixed wing aircraft (IE predator drones)

Show me where the USAF has this in its inventory

Can't, can ya?

Because they don't

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Inside The Air Force
January 5, 2001
Pg. 3

State Department Finds No Treaty Implications In UAV Weaponization

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, OH -- The State Department has lifted its objections to the Air Force's demonstration of a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle's ability to carry and accurately launch a Hellfire missile, paving the way for the test in mid-February, according to Air Force officials here.....

...for the tests, one Hellfire will be fitted under each wing of Predator air vehicle No. 34.

During the following two tests, operators will launch the missile from an airborne Predator and assess how discharging the missile affects the UAV's in-flight characteristics, sources say. During one of these tests, service officials will lase the target from a ground location. Predator will self-lase its target during the other test, using a "Kosovo laser ball," a laser designator quickly fabricated with the help of the Navy when Predator was deployed in support of Operation Allied Force in 1999.

The fourth test will be a formal demonstration of an airborne Predator self-lasing and destroying a target using Hellfire, the sources said. The three airborne tests will occur at a facility at Indian Springs, NV, the officials added.

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Now, what was all that about people pretending to have a lot of military knowledge? (:^D)

204 posted on 12/12/2001 12:28:35 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Byron, you truely are a loon

As I said the predator is a fixed wing slow moving air force drone.

Do they drop these things out of B-52s? Or off of any manned fast mover? The answer to that is no?

You remind me of myself as a 14 year old. In love with military technology and thinking myself an expert on it.

Some very good drill instructors disabused me of that notion in the summer of 1974.

Now 27 years later I like to think I've a pretty good grasp of war and things military

Join the Army kid, it will be good for you

206 posted on 12/12/2001 4:02:10 PM PST by Qatar-6
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