ScanEagle bits in the hands of the enemy.

[RCAV8R13]

These pix are little old but I thought you guys would like to see them anyway.
They claim to have shot it down but there is now way they did. The telemetry file shows that the plane was way too high for them to have even seen it, let alone shot it down, when the power went dead for some unknown reason. Besides there are no burn marks anywhere on it in these photos. What did they "shoot" it down with, prayers?
RCA

[Wulffy]

... What did they "shoot" it down with, prayers? ...

OMG, that is one of the funniest things I have heard in a while!!! :D

Too funny.

Semper Fi

-t

[kd7ost]

RCA,

Is that some type of MXL belt drive and alternator on the engine?

Dan

[RCAV8R13]

RCA,

Is that some type of MXL belt drive and alternator on the engine?

Dan
It's a Maxon motor turned into a generator (three faze alternator). Gates belt with custom pulleys. Whole thing is controlled by a propietary power conditioning board.
RCA

[RCAV8R13]

OMG, that is one of the funniest things I have heard in a while!!! :D

Too funny.

Semper Fi

-t
Ditto on the "Semper Fi", we're saving your buddies every day over there. We've logged over 30,000 hours in theater now. Don't know how many Marines we've saved but it's a bunch. We get letters every week from them. Great guys, I wish we could save them all.
RCA

[workshop]

It looks like it went down onto the playground of an Iraqi middle school...

As tough as they want to look, they must be having the same "SkyNet" nightmare as Reese in Terminator I. It must really suck to be so full of hate against an omnipresent foe.

Keep 'em flying! Pack 'em with Hellfires.

Jeff

[macboffin]

It looks like it went down onto the playground of an Iraqi middle school...

As tough as they want to look, they must be having the same "SkyNet" nightmare as Reese in Terminator I. It must really suck to be so full of hate against an omnipresent foe.

Keep 'em flying! Pack 'em with Hellfires.

Jeff

As you say, must really suck to be so full of hate that you want to pack 'em with Hellfires!

[workshop]

You seem to indicate that you believe my statement to be contradictory. I don't understand how you equate my desire for overwhelming military superiority to my possessing hate. I want to protect my soldiers; if UAVs with Hellfire missiles can do that, so be it. I don’t hate the people we kill.

Most of my fellow Americans are used to this sort criticism by now. The hate filled war mongering American stereotype just doesn’t wash given our clear record of helping more than we hurt.

To be clear: the "'em" in "Pack 'em with Hellfires" referred to the UAV's not the middle school terrorists. I feel hopelessly sad for most of the "hate" America ilk.

Jeff

[macboffin]

Thanks for the clarification. Travel much? Yes. I was in Afghanistan anti-Russians shortly after they first arrived, still have fluent Farsi and Dari , now only of use in ethnic restaurants. Was also in Kashmir with UAVs for Indian Army, amongst other interesting holiday spots!
UAVs should primarily be for seeing what"They" are going to do, and discouraging same, rather than using as UCAVs, since that route could finish up by encouraging their use in OUR urban environments, courtesy of Futaba, O.S. and U-NAV! And of course SPEKTRUM, just to make things more difficult.

[workshop]

Well traveled indeed. The problem in our communication must then stem from my "Terminator" reference; an American, pop-culture movie reference about a film of the same name.

In "Terminator", an armed, low atmosphere, aerial assault system run by a computer named "SkyNet" is the evil force behind the movie's antagonist. Today's armed UAVs remind folks here about that movie and it's implications (one of which you described in your post).

Since this thread is not a debate about placing weapons on UAVs (a concept that I personally embrace) you and I should agree to disagree without assigning "hate" to the other individual. BTW, I believe "Thanks for the clarification." British for "Sorry I said you were a hater". ;)

Jeff

Most of my distant travel (i.e. that which does not include EU and the Americas) has been in the South Pacific and Asia. I just got back from Agra India two months ago on business. Travel makes for more valid political observations.

[macboffin]

Taj Mahal is quite something, whilst in Delhi with my team before going up to Jammu took a trip to show them the Taj.
We left the hotel in Jammu at 4pm, and at 7pm the seperatists blew it up! Nice try, but poor intel!
If you go out again, try to take in McCloud Ganj, (just above Dharamsala)
where the Dalai Lama hangs out. Spent a couple of years in that part. Summers there, winters in Goa.