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| Drones hover over Bajaur Agency |
| 2009-02-25 |
| US unmanned spy planes kept hovering over Bajaur Agency here on Tuesday, Geo News reported. Sources said the spy planes' flights over Nawagai, Khar and Mamoond areas for a few hours, triggered panic and harassment in the areas. Local tribesmen have demanded from the government taking notice of the flights of these US spy planes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 2009-02-25 12:31 |
| #3 Hovering eh? That's a good trick. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-02-25 10:47 |
| #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 |
| #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 |