Why I love Drones
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Why I love Drones
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Try to keep up, Sean--that one's at least a month old by now!
Now, which forum member was it that broke physics and admitted it...?
Oh yeah, here it is. http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/viewt ... f=7&t=2105
Now, which forum member was it that broke physics and admitted it...?
Oh yeah, here it is. http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/viewt ... f=7&t=2105
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I found it funny because I saw it while watching the Terminator!
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Gotcha. Oh, speaking of Terminators and geeky humor, if you watch season 2 episode 17 of The Big Bang Theory, you will find Summer Glau (a.k.a. River Tam in Firefly and Cameron in The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as a guest star.I found it funny because I saw it while watching the Terminator!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter...
...The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.
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I wonder if they have purchased a legitimate licensehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?
Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter...
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http://www.independent.ie/national-news ... 66358.htmlAn unmanned surveillance drone being used by Irish peacekeepers in Chad which went missing after being deployed in the desert may have tried to fly back to the Curragh, 3000 miles away.
The drone, part of a portable mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system, lost contact with base 25 minutes after it was deployed.
It was one of two Irish army drones which have have been put out of commission, at a cost of €70,000.
One theory is that the drone, which is programmed to return to base when contact is severed with its Ground Control Station (GCS), may have still had the co-ordinates of the Curragh camp in its computer programme, rather than the Irish headquarters near Goz Beida in south-eastern Chad.
At the end of its mission, the Orbiter drone is programmed to enter Return Home Mode, either on a command from its operator or automatically if contact is lost.
The drone then returns to its pre-programmed recovery point and deploys its parachute.
It is feared that during familiarisation and training at the Curragh, the coordinates of the Irish Army camp in Kildare may have been programmed into the drone.
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It's been done before.
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Seems that the USAF has a little too much $ on their hands. Using a production aircraft for a live fire drone = Military aviation WTF!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... -fire.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... -fire.html
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Seems that the USAF has a little too much $ on their hands. Using a production aircraft for a live fire drone = Military aviation WTF!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... -fire.html
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Not as a drone, and this was not a production standard aircraft. Probably more on the lines of "what damage happens when hit by GSH-30 shells, and how do we fix it?", shot at on the ground.Seems that the USAF has a little too much $ on their hands. Using a production aircraft for a live fire drone = Military aviation WTF!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... -fire.html
Now, how about going air to air vs that new RQ-170.
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yeah... I meant to say prototype. hmmm shooting at her while she is on the ground seems to be a bit sad.... if you are going to blow her up; do it with a boom (maybe a hollywood studio would pay big $$$ to coordinate into a movie!)Not as a drone, and this was not a production standard aircraft. Probably more on the lines of "what damage happens when hit by GSH-30 shells, and how do we fix it?", shot at on the ground.Seems that the USAF has a little too much $ on their hands. Using a production aircraft for a live fire drone = Military aviation WTF!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... -fire.html
Now, how about going air to air vs that new RQ-170.
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As Princess Leis says, it is to gauge the damage caused by flak. It is common to offer up a prototype or pre production airframe for such tests.
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