Global Hawk Down
06-22-2017 | 12:16 AM
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Global Hawk Down
An RQ-4 crashed near Mt Whitney, while enroute to Beale from Edwards.
No ejection attempt was made, and no survivors are reported at the crash site.
Spy Plane on Routine Flight to Beale Air Force Base Crashes Near Mt. Whitney | FOX40
No ejection attempt was made, and no survivors are reported at the crash site.
Spy Plane on Routine Flight to Beale Air Force Base Crashes Near Mt. Whitney | FOX40
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06-23-2017 | 03:27 PM
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Good. No blue car in a driveway, no one running around town trying to intercept a wife who is out grocery shopping and no squadron dude hunting around a playground trying to find a kid to send home. That sh1t sucks.
06-23-2017 | 04:19 PM
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06-24-2017 | 05:48 AM
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Missing from the end of that statement: "...because anyone who says otherwise will be branded a heretic by the Church of UAVs in the Air Force."
06-25-2017 | 07:34 AM
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Years ago, a friend of mine was a very high up the chain in the AOR (can't remember which country he was deployed to), but they lost one at night over the 'stan....and never did find the wreckage.
They (still!!) don't even know what country it crashed in.
06-25-2017 | 07:40 AM
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They (RPAs) are a huge pain in the a$$ to other traffic in Afghanistan and other AORs. Too many near misses to count. Before pilot training all the propaganda Nazis were saying how every pilot will fly RPAs in their Air Force careers and how it is the "wave of the future," several years later most pilots I know in the AF will retire without ever having flown one. (FWIW they do an amazing job at specific mission sets and killing bad guys.)
Anyone who thinks autonomous airliners are on the horizon for anyone actually flying today is smoking some special type of dope.
Anyone who thinks autonomous airliners are on the horizon for anyone actually flying today is smoking some special type of dope.
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