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Air Force Uses Falcons To Protect Falcons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the april-already dept.

coondoggie writes "Birds and high-performance jet aircraft don't mix. So at a base in Germany, the Air Force is fighting birds with birds — specifically trained falcons that patrol the base and help eliminate at least some of the feathered threat to the F-16 Fighting Falcons and other aircraft."

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  1. What's next? by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eagles to protect eagles? Awesome! Raptors to protect raptors? KICKASS! Warhogs to protect wart... wait.

    1. Re:What's next? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 3, Funny

      wait till you find out how they protect Nimrods.

    2. Re:What's next? by mangu · · Score: 3, Funny

      When your gun's recoil is more than the force of one of your engines ... that's an impressive gun.

      So, why don't they mount the gun backwards? The pilot could aim through a rear facing camera.

  2. obligatory... by t35t0r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yo dawg, I heard you like falcons, so I got you this falcon so you can use your falcons while you use your falcons!

  3. There are better ways. by santax · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you have an airstrip full of sidewinder maverick armed planes and you use this... That's pretty boring, albeit cheaper.

  4. Leonardo International Rotary Wing Airport by Infonaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously you haven't been paying attention in history class. It's well known that Leonardo de Caprio's wood-and-graphite-composite corkscrew blade helicopter-Transformers were in heavy use during the early 1700s, especially in New Brunswick, East Anglia, and Muscovy. If only they had survived the onslaught of the steam-powered Brazilian Aero-Bombardment Fleet, we'd have a better historical record of those unbelievable flying machines.

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