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Why I love Drones

Postby supersean » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:22 pm

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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby PurduePilot » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:32 am

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...?

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Oh yeah, here it is. http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/viewt ... f=7&t=2105

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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby supersean » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:48 pm

I found it funny because I saw it while watching the Terminator!
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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby PurduePilot » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:49 am

I found it funny because I saw it while watching the Terminator!
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. :mrgreen:

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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby Sickbag » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:56 pm

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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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby Not_Karl » Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:01 pm

http://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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I wonder if they have purchased a legitimate license :P
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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby Sickbag » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:06 pm

An 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.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news ... 66358.html



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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby supersean » Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:01 pm

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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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby PurduePilot » Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:32 pm

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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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby Princess Leia » Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:53 pm

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
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.

Now, how about going air to air vs that new RQ-170.
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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby supersean » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:58 pm

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
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.

Now, how about going air to air vs that new RQ-170.
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!)
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Re: Why I love Drones

Postby Robert Hilton » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:48 am

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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