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| Tribesmen shot down another US drone |
| 2010-01-27 |
| [Geo News] The tribesman on Tuesday shot down another US unmanned spy plane through anti-aircraft gun in North Waziristan region. According to sources, four US drone aircrafts were hovering over different parts of Waziristan when the tribesmen shot fire at them with anti-aircraft gun. As a result one of the aircrafts crashed in Miranshah area. According to an eyewitness, the plane's wreckage fell into Afghanistan's area. This was the second drone plane, which was shot down by tribesmen this week. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 My intelligence sources say that This Aircraft was the one downed by the Taliban. Damned shame............ |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-01-27 22:30 |
| #16 MQ-1 ceiling is low enough that they are vulnerable to AAA, especially in mountainous areas. Flying at 20K" in 10K" mountains will leave it vulnerable. No radar needed as it would be a red strobe light implicating the Paki gov. My guess it is the Paks way of extracting jizya for their own Predator fleet. A few 12.7 or 14.5s and ammo is cheap. Better to ramp up MQ-9 Reaper activity in the "good taliban" areas where if the Pakis want to shoot them down they will have to use fighter aircraft. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-27 16:27 |
| #15 Is it possible that the UAV could tell if it was being tracked by radar, and that this could be reported to its operators? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-01-27 12:34 |
| #14 Thanks, Ebbang. Don't mind if I do. Cheers! |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-01-27 12:21 |
| #13 Give 'em an arclight and see how effective they are shooting at that. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-27 12:06 |
| #12 Sounds like an opportunity to start flying paired high-low UAVs, the low 'un a low-value "staked goat" to get the AA batteries to open up & reveal themselves, the high member of the pair to spot the offenders & paste them good and proper. May require more than one UAV on the high side, depending on the technical limitations. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-01-27 10:41 |
| #11 Software on the crippled UAV should dump all munitions at the calculated source of any ground fire that hits the UAV. Not all UAVs are armed. Of all the UAVs in our inventory most are ISR assets although we're certainly using the armed ones heavily of late. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-01-27 10:03 |
| #10 So if we take it out and it is a Pakistani one.... they get to either squirm while complaining or shutup and take it. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-27 09:09 |
| #9 But wait! That would imply the Pakistanis are actively working for The Other Side. Oh noes! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-01-27 08:43 |
| #8 That was my first guess. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-27 07:59 |
| #7 A Pakistani Army gun crew in mufti? |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-01-27 05:29 |
| #6 Which is one reason why I think a smaller UAV with lower ceiling height and lower speed g(r)omgoru |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-27 04:40 |
| #5 I've some experience on AA guns---hiting a drone without radar guidance shouldn't be all that easy. If this is true (remember who we're dealing with) I suspect some operator is up for a bit of a hard time. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-27 04:33 |
| #4 Just to add ... Area this happened in was near the town of Miranshah, which is Haqqani area . Several strikes already happened there in the last 2 years , you would suspect that the players on the ground would adapt after the first strike on that madrassa (Daande Darpkhel)back in 2008 .. Whudda thought about AA flak guns *facepalm* |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-27 04:09 |
| #3 MQ-1 or MQ-9 ? Nah I suspect something smaller like RQ-11 |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-27 04:01 |
| #2 This doesn't seem so complicated. Software on the crippled UAV should dump all munitions at the calculated source of any ground fire that hits the UAV. Mini HARMS... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-01-27 01:07 |
| #1 aa gun unit needs taking out. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-27 00:04 |