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Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario

Posted by samzenpus on from the hide-and-seek dept.

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."

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  1. Forgive My Ignorance by FrankDrebin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But why does a state national guard have an attack wing?

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    1. Re:Forgive My Ignorance by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It also serves to remind people of the idea that the U.S.A. is a group of united states. The Guard units really answer to the Governors and are each states' mini-armed forces, even if they are occasionally assigned to work with the federal armed forces.

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  2. This one only "crashed" by Press2ToContinue · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just an accident. And when the first drone "accidentally fires" on a US citizen... what then?

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  3. Re:Bummer by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I get my freshwater from there.

    Considering how close that is to a nuclear power station I think you might have bigger things to worry about than a military drone that went down in the lake.

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  4. Re:Lets have some fun picking this apart. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are you really concerned about an invasion of the US mainland that will entail MIGs? You realize the cold war ended 25 years ago right?

    You also realize the cost of a drone verse the cost of an F-16 that will never be deployed? I think your complaints about tax dollars are a little skewed.

  5. Re:Let me be the First to Say... by peragrin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    do you know how much a cruise missile costs? $500,000 to $2 million depending on "features and optional extras"

    $17 million is literally chump change to the us military i am almost surprised they wasted time looking at all.

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