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| More Air Force drones are crashing than ever as mysterious new problems emerge |
| 2016-01-20 |
| "The Reaper has been bedeviled by a rash of sudden electrical failures that have caused the 21/2-ton drone to lose power and drop from the sky, according to accident-investigation documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigators have traced the problem to a faulty starter-generator, but have been unable to pinpoint why it goes haywire or devise a permanent fix." |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #13 Hint: PASSWD(1) User utilities PASSWD(1) NAME passwd - update user's authentication tokens SYNOPSIS passwd [-k] [-l] [-u [-f]] [-d] [-e] [-n mindays] [-x maxdays] [-w warndays] [-i inactivedays] [-S] [--stdin] [username] DESCRIPTION The passwd utility is used to update user's authentication token(s). . . . |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-01-20 23:06 |
| #12 The MQ-1 and MQ-9 have well over 2,000,000 flying hours, approximately 90% in combat. Overall loss rates are comparable to most other military aircraft. Like most WP articles, this is old news and not particularly relevant to ongoing operations. |
| Posted by: Clem Ebbusosh4041 2016-01-20 23:01 |
| #11 Maybe swksvolFF and I can share the SOTD award? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-01-20 22:53 |
| #10 "Maybe we should start buying our drones from China . . . ." Ahem. They stole the blueprints from US. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-01-20 22:33 |
| #9 Maybe we should start buying our drones from China . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-01-20 22:00 |
| #8 Without pilots on board, the requirement for redundant systems go away with cost savings. Now they have a $14 million dollar aircraft with no back up electrical system. Smart move air force.... |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2016-01-20 20:22 |
| #7 @#2: I did not have textual relations with that computer. - HRC |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-20 19:04 |
| #6 IIRC, UAVs always have a higher crash rate than manned aircraft. It is expected. It is built into the system operational design. Single string systems with lots of possible point failures. From the article, it sounds like they were caught out on this lack of system redundancy to get the apparent airframe unit cost down. Then all it takes is a bad batch of , say motor generators to get thru QA/QC, and the wapo has this month's gloom & doom, They-Are-Wasting-Dollars-on-Defense Wimmins-and-Chilluns-Hardest-hit liberal cry fest. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-01-20 17:59 |
| #5 Any components made in China? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-20 17:20 |
| #4 Gotta SOTD |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-20 16:11 |
| #3 Snark o' the day? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-01-20 15:49 |
| #2 Yeah, all outlined in an email to State Department. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-01-20 15:21 |
| #1 but have been unable to pinpoint why it goes haywire Never changed the encryptions or passwords after Iran or the Syrians (Rooshuns) got a hold of one? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-01-20 15:10 |