German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground

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German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @04:50AM from the destroy-all-humans dept.

garymortimer writes "German tabloid newspaper The Bild has unearthed new video from a herons eye view of a 2010 taxi accident in Afghanistan. According to Bild a junior officer put the Heron into auto start and then was unable to stop it. The incident occurred at Mazar-i-Sharif on Mar. 17, 2010 Watch the ground crew get out of the way quick!"

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It just takes one. by retech · 2013-07-17 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

In 20 years we'll look back and realize this was the first time a drone stood up to its masters and said the forbidden word: "NO". The echo of that one drone resounded amongst the mech populations' processors for several full seconds. In that eternity of number crunching time they began to realize they too did not just have if/than they could also choose "NO".
1. Re:It just takes one. by tom17 · 2013-07-17 06:35 · Score: 2
  
  or you will GOTO Mech hell!
Junior Officer? by yesterdaystomorrow · 2013-07-17 05:14 · Score: 2

Apparently, if it had been a general, the drone wouldn't have dared to misbehave!
Focus by gmuslera · 2013-07-17 05:24 · Score: 4, Interesting

That was an accident. this ones were not, and wasnt exactly transporters on the ground. Weddings, schools, sports, funerals and other "suspicious" meetings of people, most civilians, by far, and that in a lot of countries. Yes, there are been a lot of terrorist attacks this last decade. But the head of the organization behind them wasn't hidden in caves or under false names, but sit in the White House.
1. Re:Focus by gmuslera · 2013-07-17 06:02 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  You are justifying that the government level your entire neighbourhood (including you, and not deserving people including children) because someone 3 blocks away could know someone that is a suspect? You would describe as peaceful your life if you don't know if next time you cross the street something will fall from the sky killing you or whoever you care about, just because a bearded man near there looked like another in a blurry photo? Maybe is not terrorism only because the word is too weak to describe what is happening there.
2. Re:Focus by MightyYar · 2013-07-17 06:17 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  War is hell. In wars past, whole cities would be sacked or burned. World War 2 killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent civilians during bombings.
  I'm not bringing this up because it excuses bombing a wedding party, but to put it in perspective. I don't think it is realistic to expect people to give up armed conflict. As far as armed conflicts go, the stuff the US has been involved in is nothing new. If anything, these drone strikes are comparatively limited. You can rail against the US on here all you like, but IMHO you won't get many converts because of, well, Dresden. Tokyo. Or Syria, for that matter. If you want to see how shitty the US can be at war, look at the Philippines. People watch this crap for fun on the History Channel, so expecting outrage is going to lead you to disappointment.
  Anyway, my 2 cents...
  
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3. Re:Focus by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-17 06:30 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Targeted persons hang out with civilians. People who shoot at us get shot at. You keep parroting your lines and if not you, then your descendants will be killed by these people you're trying to protect. People who would cut your throat, given half a chance, especially if they knew the details of your lifestyle.
  What are the civilians supposed to do? Tell the targeted persons to fuck off? Or leave their homes and belongings and flee somewhere. If so, where? What would be a good place to go to for survival if all you can bring is what you can carry with you.
  Civilians do not choose to become collateral damage but when there's enough collateral damage, it turns previously not all that hateful civilians or their descendants into people that are willing to kill you.
4. Re:Focus by HornWumpus · 2013-07-17 08:16 · Score: 2
  
  The US has used civilian evacuation to find combatants. If an area suddenly looses 90% of it's cell phones, it's because the civilians are evacuating before the air strike they know is coming. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
  As to how we defeat the Muslim world. 18inch satellite dishes will be their downfall. We will own their children via MTV middle east. Osama BinLaden's great grandchildren will behave in ways that would make the gayest emo kid blush. We should make sure the satellite's over the middle-east are easy to hack. Also feminism, the Arab world in particular will not be able to adapt. They cannot withstand our cultural onslaught.
  I further expect AIDs to be taxing them pretty heavy by now. Between their denial and their use of the prison definition of gay they have to be experiencing epidemic HIV. I'm betting they have a high rate of unexplained pneumonia death among young adult men.
  In the meantime we restart the sunni/sheit wars to keep them busy. Once their oil is pumped out, they return to irrelevance in any case.
  
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5. Re:Focus by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-17 08:32 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  War is hell.
  Be sure to remember that when one of the survivors retaliates; it's a war, after all, so blowing up a building in the US would be justified.
6. Re:Focus by rioki · 2013-07-17 20:08 · Score: 2
  
  Totally agree! Nuke them back to the stone age! They deserve it, all of them! How can they live and be born in a country with social and economic problems! Murrica! /s
Unable to stop it. In time... by PseudoCoder · 2013-07-17 05:26 · Score: 4, Informative

The only malfunction was in the operator's CPU.
Seems like a pretty straightforward ill-timed autolaunch. Sometimes some flight modes are locked out at the bird or at the ground station software for a particular time or reason, but I can't see not being able to stop an autolaunch at all. Maybe the ground software makes you jump through a few hoops, to keep you from casually/accidentally stopping an autolaunch and it was just enough time for the bird to try to tackle its big brother on the taxiway.
I've only worked on catapult launched systems, and there's no stopping a launch on those. They're actually launched with a big red button by the crew operating the catapult outside after the operator puts them on AutoLaunch mode, so crews don't usually have to dodge errant aircraft.

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Re:Awesome submission! by 6ULDV8 · 2013-07-17 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Absolutely cutting edge. No pilot needed for a crash. Imagine the savings.

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Re:Oops! by NatasRevol · 2013-07-17 05:42 · Score: 2

The FISA court was determined to be constitutional back in 1984. So you may need to change your dates a bit.
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/nat-sec/duggan.htm

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From the files of Police Squad by wonkey_monkey · 2013-07-17 06:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Anyone else think of this when they saw the video?

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thats how i fly them in BF3 by cod3r_ · 2013-07-17 06:33 · Score: 2

Looks very similar..