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U.S. Drone Crashes in Seychelles, Air Force Investigating

I think it may be time to:

1) train new drone operators.

2) change our radio frequences.

3) upgrade the piloting software.

Two drones falling out of the sky into the wrong hands is too much for me! We're not talking about a simple glider here, folks. These drone aircraft cost MILLIONS! And for even one to fall into enemy hands not because it was shot down but because "it went rogue" or had some unknown "malfunction" that sent it off course is too much for me.
 
Oh my goodness...now former VP Cheney (aka, Tricky Dick 2) has put his :twocents: in the mix on the downed drone now held by Iran saying Pres. Obama should have launched a missle strike and destroyed it from the air. While I agree with him in theory, he has to know that all such an act would have done was give Iran a reason to claim that the U.S. has launched an offensive missle strike against them. Thus, giving Iran their "just cause" to declare war against the U.S.

I swear, the neo-cons never fail to miss a beat do they? :doh
 
On the topic of the drone that was shot down in Iran before; we would have shot an enemy drone invading our airspace in a heartbeat. Just saying
 
Chaz,

Not sure we would have shot it down, but if we could have jammed its radio frequencey to bring it down, yes...absolutely.

Here's another report out of Iran on the downed drone, this time it's from Ahmadinejad himself proclaiming "Iran can now 'control' the aircraft". Based on the article, I assume by "control" he means fly the drone. That wouldn't surprise me. It's a radio-controlled plane. Find the right frequency and you can pilot the darn thing. I'm not worried about them being able to pilot the drone. I worry about the intel Iran might gain from it or their ability to reverse engineer it. But flying it...not a problem. And if that's the best they can do as far as what info they've been able to get from it, I say our military secrets are still pretty much secure.
 
Objective Voice said:
I think it may be time to:

1) train new drone operators.

2) change our radio frequences.

3) upgrade the piloting software.

Two drones falling out of the sky into the wrong hands is too much for me! We're not talking about a simple glider here, folks. These drone aircraft cost MILLIONS! And for even one to fall into enemy hands not because it was shot down but because "it went rogue" or had some unknown "malfunction" that sent it off course is too much for me.
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it's definitely time to install a working self destruct on these things. i find it incredible that this doesn't seem to be a current feature. what are they thinking?

two drones going down in two weeks is also not a good sign.
 
Objective Voice said:
Chaz,

Not sure we would have shot it down, but if we could have jammed its radio frequencey to bring it down, yes...absolutely.

Here's another report out of Iran on the downed drone, this time it's from Ahmadinejad himself proclaiming "Iran can now 'control' the aircraft". Based on the article, I assume by "control" he means fly the drone. That wouldn't surprise me. It's a radio-controlled plane. Find the right frequency and you can pilot the darn thing. I'm not worried about them being able to pilot the drone. I worry about the intel Iran might gain from it or their ability to reverse engineer it. But flying it...not a problem. And if that's the best they can do as far as what info they've been able to get from it, I say our military secrets are still pretty much secure.
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Let him go ahead and try.....it'll make our day.
 
Objective Voice said:
I think it may be time to:

1) train new drone operators.

2) change our radio frequences.

3) upgrade the piloting software.

Two drones falling out of the sky into the wrong hands is too much for me! We're not talking about a simple glider here, folks. These drone aircraft cost MILLIONS! And for even one to fall into enemy hands not because it was shot down but because "it went rogue" or had some unknown "malfunction" that sent it off course is too much for me.
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We've lost plenty of helicopters and personnel that cost far more. It's a war.
 
Saw this on Michaelsavage.com yesterday...why we don't have a destruct button is beyond me...they have it in the movies, maybe the military should go to the movies to take lessons.
 
Why are we patrolling the Seychelles with drones in the first place? It's not exactly a powerful nation or a hotbed of anti-Western terrorism...
 
American said:
We've lost plenty of helicopters and personnel that cost far more. It's a war.
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Just so...these drones are probably very heavily used nowadays by the military since they can be remotely piloted and are relatively cheap compared to other surveillance methods, it was only a matter of time before some went down for whatever reason.

Odd that this one fell on Seychelles, out in the middle of nowhere Indian ocean. Are these launched from carriers, and maybe one was flying from or to a mission, malfunctioned, and auto-landed on the only chunk of land nearby?

ADDED: looking a bit more closely at the map, Somalia is the nearest bit of land that we might want to keep an eye on from Seychelles, totally reasonable that the drone was doing a fly-over over Mogadishu and had to land.
 
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They should install a Thermite bomb inside the drones just to make sure everything inside is thoroughly converted to slag. This is getting embarrassing.
 
ChuckBerry said:
ADDED: looking a bit more closely at the map, Somalia is the nearest bit of land that we might want to keep an eye on from Seychelles, totally reasonable that the drone was doing a fly-over over Mogadishu and had to land.
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I doubt it. Somalia is nearly a thousand miles from the Seychelles. If we wanted to keep an eye on Somalia there are plenty of US-aligned countries that are closer. Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, etc. It just seems weird that we'd even have drones in the Seychelles. My best guess is that the US military probably now has drones just about everywhere...and this kind of thing happens frequently in US-aligned countries, but we're only hearing about it now because of the recent crash in Iran.
 
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Allegedly the Seychelles is a drone base, and this Reaper was landing, but didn't stop, and ran out of runway.
 
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