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2017-03-13 Terror Networks

US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the 'war on terror'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-13 09:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 'Changed the war'... yes. Helped win the war on terror? I'm leaning toward 'helped,' but obviously the final assessment and impacts (Lessons Learned) cannot be rendered just yet.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-13 09:55|| 2017-03-13 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Built in Poway, San Diego County

Posted by Frank G 2017-03-13 10:24|| 2017-03-13 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Sent them off to SKor.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-13 13:07|| 2017-03-13 13:07|| Front Page Top

#4 changed the 'war on terror' into a video game?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-13 17:03|| 2017-03-13 17:03|| Front Page Top

#5 off to SKor

No surplus? "Chip in for a Predator...
Or one for each colorful editor.
More fun (if still thankless);
More barbs, Charbs, and frankness
For terror or erring competitor."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-13 17:46|| 2017-03-13 17:46|| Front Page Top

#6 ...On my last trip to RED FLAG in 1998, I had a chance to spend a couple hours with the Predator guys - they on the long end of the supply chain (IF they could get supplies at all) ignored, and mocked. But one of their flight officers - a brand new 2LT - looked me dead in the eye and said that someday the Air Force would need them, and need them badly...and they'd be there.

God bless you and your birds, Lieutenant.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-03-13 18:31|| 2017-03-13 18:31|| Front Page Top

#7 A new mission for the F-35?

BTW, I looked at a couple of pictures of this nifty new Chinese stealth gizmo thingee fighter of theirs and I couldn't help but see some resemblance to the dear departed and wonderful YF-23...is it just me? Or did the Chinese steal that too???

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-13 18:35|| 2017-03-13 18:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Did we design it? ChiComs stole it.

Posted by Kofi Chaiter1459 2017-03-13 19:53|| 2017-03-13 19:53|| Front Page Top

#9 "Terror" is not the name of a combatant. We can't win a war so long as we're unwilling to name WHO we're waging war against.

Posted by Crusader 2017-03-13 22:27|| 2017-03-13 22:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Sent them off to SKor.

The US Army is replacing them with the MQ-1C (4 Hellfires) and will send a company of them to SKor.

I think the surplus Predators would be better used monitoring our southern border.

Posted by Gomez Wholuth7254 2017-03-13 23:14|| 2017-03-13 23:14|| Front Page Top

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