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2012-01-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel's most advanced drone crashes in test flight

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Posted by tipper 2012-01-29 07:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Whoever makes the first UAV heavy bomber capable of a B-52 sized payload of about 4000kg is going to get a huge number of orders--if they permit export.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-29 09:15|| 2012-01-29 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Re this and complaints about US UAVs crashing..
It better that a robot crashes than a manned plane!
That thought tends to get lost by the press. There is no Hanoi Hilton to empty out with the WoT... a few dead robots? Who cares...

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-29 10:40|| 2012-01-29 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 You'd think that's coming. If you have air supremacy a BUFF-sized drone that can orbit all day and drop smart bombs on command makes a lot of sense.

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-29 10:44|| 2012-01-29 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't seem like it should be that hard to convert most current generation heavy aircraft to be bombers; as long as they're fly-by-wire it's mainly a software thing. And most modern airliners CAN land by autopilot (though they don't.) Now, defending the drone, making it difficult to see with radar, etc. are tougher. Heck, Germany had drone bomber in 1942 (V-1) - targeting was iffy and they weren't intended to make the round trip, but ...

Posted by Glenmore 2012-01-29 10:49|| 2012-01-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh noes! Failure in testing, call the whole program off. /eye roll.

As for the V-1, it was more a cruise missile than a bomber.

Posted by SteveS 2012-01-29 14:16|| 2012-01-29 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, SteveS. But if Israel has an airframe, a guidance system, a payload, and range, then from Iran's perspective Israel has a bomber drone.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-01-29 14:25|| 2012-01-29 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 #1 the USDOD is already looking into it.

versus

* TOPIX > [Jericho III] ISRAELI ICBM TEST RAISES POSSIBILITY OF EMP ATTACK ON IRAN.

At best a delay for OWG Caliphate-happy Rising Iran + Radical Islam.

* WORLD NEWS > IRAN A YEAR AWAY FROM NUKE [2013], SAYS US DEFENCE SECRETARY LEON PANETTA, + prob another 2-3 years away as per dev a reliable LR Delivery Sys for same.

On a separate note, I can't help but notice that after DESERT STORM, the anti-Bush,GOP Lefts + MSM kept harping the general rant "NO WMDS IN IRAQ" to criticize same when they really meant Nuclear Weapons - NOW WID IRAN, ITS "NUKES" PER SE WHILE IGNORING THE NON-NUKE WMDS. DITTO PER "DIRTY NUKES" + LOW-YIELD EMP WEAPS.

SAME FALSE ARGUMENT OR CRITICISM, JUST VEE DIFFERENT OR OPPOSITE DIRECTION???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-29 22:02|| 2012-01-29 22:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Just "Who" puts this stuff out there for "public consumption" in the first place? It really pisses me off. They should be summarily "shot at Sunrise".

Posted by Bugs Glomoque3110 2012-01-29 23:34|| 2012-01-29 23:34|| Front Page Top

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