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2009-02-25 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 There was a ceremony today at the National Museum of the Air Force commemorating the MQ-1 Predator passing the 500,000 flying hour mark. More than 87% of those hours were on combat missions. Predators and Reapers are currently flying more than 15,000 hours a month. Bad guys should be afraid. They should be very afraid.

Posted by rwv 2009-02-25 00:23|| 2009-02-25 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Local tribesmen have demanded from the government taking notice of the flights of these US spy planes.

Yep. There up there all right.
Anything else?

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-25 02:28|| 2009-02-25 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Hovering eh? That's a good trick.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-02-25 10:47|| 2009-02-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Right on, Parabellum. The next thing they're going to start saying is that they look like saucers, and abduct people with a weird blue ray.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-25 12:31|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-25 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I still want the CIA to add the ice cream truck music. It'll drive them crazy...

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-25 12:33|| 2009-02-25 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 They've lost a couple recently. Looks like the flight times might be starting to take a toll...

An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed Sunday in Iraq, according to the Air Force. The crash of the MQ-1 Predator, flown out of Joint Base Balad, occurred at 4:30 p.m. after an Air National Guard crew lost communications with the remote-controlled plane. The wreckage was discovered about 45 minutes later.

The crash is the second of a Predator this month. An Air Force special operations MQ-1 went down Feb. 8 in Afghanistan.

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-25 12:37|| 2009-02-25 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 If the drones are making them nervous now, just wait until we deploy SkyNet and its autonomous flying killbots. BWAHAHAHA. And two thumbs up on the ice cream truck music.

Posted by SteveS 2009-02-25 12:44|| 2009-02-25 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Far back in my memory I saw a scheme to lift Gliders by balloon, at height you cut away the balloon, and off you go.

Posted by Rednek Jim 2009-02-25 12:48|| 2009-02-25 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Thought the Predators were supposed to return to base upon losing comms. Must have been a really old model.

Posted by ed 2009-02-25 13:06|| 2009-02-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 The Predator is designed to continue flying on auto-pilot if it is not able to receive directions from crew members on the ground. However, often a communications loss is the result of mechanical or electrical problems that the auto-pilot cannot handle, resulting in a crash.

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-25 13:08|| 2009-02-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 It's the planet Venus, being reflected by a weather balloon through a cloud of swamp gas.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-25 14:49|| 2009-02-25 14:49|| Front Page Top

#12 The next thing they're going to start saying is that they look like saucers, and abduct people with a weird blue ray.

Dammit OP! Can't you keep your mouth shut - they weren't supposed to know about that!

at least not yet.

Posted by Haliburton and Juice, Flying Saucer / Blue Ray Division 2009-02-25 15:14|| 2009-02-25 15:14|| Front Page Top

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