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Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario
First time accepted submitter slipped_bit writes "An MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down over Lake Ontario during a practice mission. The flight, being operated by the New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing in Syracuse, NY, was going well for about three hours before contact with the aircraft was lost. A search was started but had to be postponed due to weather."
Is that what Brian Boitano would do? Or would he drink Canada Dry?
The interesting thing about using the drones domestically is that it will be harder to cover up these accidents the way they can overseas as classified information. Now we might see how reliable or not they are, and if they are really being used more than once before they wreck.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Honestly, who gives a shit. They were designed to be lost.
At $17M each, you'd think they'd be designed to *not* be lost. How many $17M "designed to be lost" drones can we afford to send on one-way missions?
Anyone who gives a shit about Lake Ontario. If the thing was lost after three hours of operation it still has most of its fuel load.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin