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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."
Blame Canada!
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
In other news, Iran took credit for the downing of this drone as well, saying they have already begun disassembling it and that 'Murica should be very afraid. Pictures have already appeared on the internet of Iranians holding cans of Ginger Ale and eating pancakes, showing their cunning ability to blend in with the indigenous population in order to get close enough to strike at the very heart of the imperialist dogs!
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I get my freshwater from there.
practice/fail/practice/fail...the scientific method in action.
But why does a state national guard have an attack wing?
Anybody want a peanut?
15 million dollars in equipment was lost. What's the big deal? I'm sure they spend that much in air-conditioning per day.
Call James Bond as an Evil Cat-Patting Genius has taken control of it. We must recover it before they get our launch codes!
Oh, so this isn't the plot for a movie?
How much was the Drone worth?
Apparently not enough, because you didn't even feel it was worth a single click on the only link in the story.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Just an accident. And when the first drone "accidentally fires" on a US citizen... what then?
Sent from my ENIAC
(With apologies to Johnny Five...)
So let me see here. Finder's use an apostrophe, but keepers doesn't? Loser's, again, you felt needed an apostrophe, but you got cheap again for weepers?
Newsflash on CBC.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Or were they only valid in Colorado? http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/06/deer_trail_co_sees_applications_for_nonexistent_drone_hunting_license.html
Maybe like the robot that 'terminated' itself, the drone also felt guilty about all the spying it was being asked to do, saw a chance, and plunged into the lake.
Loses Reapers.
The drone was attached to the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing – the first fighter squadron to be converted from piloted F-16s to an all-drone force.
Wait, what? An F-16 capable of carrying near 18,000 lbs of weapons and flying at mach 2+ is replaced by a drone flying at 240Mph carrying 3800lbs? Well, I'll be danged if someone in the DOD should not be fired for that decision. I could see it if they replace a squadron of A-10s with hundreds of these for close air support, but F-16s?
There have been numerous previous crashes of Reaper drones. Drones are expected to see much wider civilian use in the United States when the first federal permits are issued, which is expected in 2015, and regulators are keenly examining such crashes as they develop safety guidelines. The international market for drones is also expanding.
Okay, so they don't have a good safety record and we accept that since it's Defense. I'm good with this, but then they state...
“I have quite a bit of confidence in the safety of the airplane,” he said. “If you compare it to other platforms or aircraft that are flown by the Air Force You’ll see that it’s a much safer platform.”
So they have a higher crash record than any manned platform, no feedback for what is going wrong, yet somehow they are a "safer platform"? I guess that depends on what you are keeping safe. Pilots, okay. Tax money? Nope. Our borders? Nope, not that either.
As long as they hype the drones, people ignore why we have those for "Defending our borders". The ANG role is the last line of defense against an invading air-force. Reapers and Predators can't shoot down a MIG or SU of any type. Seems like a huge conflict of interest to man the ANG with these.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Flying in low over the lake, the last image captured was a tentacle reaching up .....
Have gnu, will travel.
Why don't you go back to usenet where you belong?
It's painfully obvious that he meant the keepers belonging to Finder, and the weepers belonging to Loser. So Finder has several goalies, or "keepers", and Loser cries a lot.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
The drone was attached to the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing
They found it. Apparently it got stuck to one of the fighters.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Having lived in Syracuse I'd say forget searching any time other than July and August.
Damn worst weather in the US.
Fort Drum is in Syracuse the same way that Bethlehem PA is in NYC.
Idiots.
Only if you live in Great Britain, or some parts of the Commonwealth. In 'Merica "practice" is both noun and verb. The meaning is determined by the context.
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/practice_practise.htm
Oh sure, a "practice" mission.
Ontario, it is known
Never gives up a drone
When the winds of November come early
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Wait, what? An F-16 capable of carrying near 18,000 lbs of weapons and flying at mach 2+ is replaced by a drone flying at 240Mph carrying 3800lbs? Well, I'll be danged if someone in the DOD should not be fired for that decision.
The usual fate of an upstate New York air base is to be closed or re-purposed. Keeping F-16s and their pilots at operational readiness is expensive --- and it is an expense that is increasingly hard to justify.
Yes, it does. The 174th has been deployed in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, among other places.
... the power of poutine !!!
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
I think you meant:
Finders keepers!
Loosers Reapers
This is an American website. Nice try.
...the hover time locked to a bedroom window with all the cameras running at max bandwidth is LIMITED.
Jeez, you just can't get good drone drivers these days.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
oh, don't say that, you will force cold fjord to come with some lie to justify these crimes
If it does not involve Edward Snowden Cold Fjord isn't interested
Right, Mr. Cold Fjord ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
All Canadian penguins are in Pittsburgh
rewriting history since 2109
The end of man has to start somewhere.
I think there's something wrong... with my head.
I read the tag as "SuperMangoTit" and was going to look it up on KnowYourMeme.com.
Don't worry, I figured it out before it went that far.
Side note: I like the way other sites use underscores to replace spaces in tags. Makes tags much more readable.
I guess they'll have to postpone the invasion of Canada.
we better start posting fliers on telephone poles now.
Have you seen this drone?
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Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Even here in the UK I've never seen use of the word "practise", ever.
So it's obviously a form of the word that's basically died a death. Literally everyone just uses the word "practice" in both cases.
There's no point being pedantic about a language rule that no one on Earth gives a shit about because it offers exactly zero benefit to society.
99.9999% of the population in the UK would think "LOL he's misspelt practice" rather than "Oh, look at his awesome and correct usage of practice/practise".
And that's okay. Because languages evolve.
For sale: Used, slightly wet MQ-9 reaper drone, responds to the name Fido.
Am I the only one wondering what the tag Super Mango Tit means?
In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!
We haven't forgot 1812 and are bidding our time until we can invade and destroy you o Canada... and with great justice because we didn't start it!
...Unless the reason it lost communication was because of hardware failure, in which case such software would do nothing.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
anti-aircraft canoes will be known around the world. Moo haa haa haa.
On these things?
A bullet may have your name on it, but artillery is addressed to " Whom It May concern"
Canada politely surrendered anyway a few hours later.
At least we didn't lose a red-blooded patriot pilot.
Don't Fear for the Reaper.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
We haven't forgot 1812
I've noticed that. Hardly anyone in the UK has heard of that war.
I think it's because we were still in the middle of a much bigger war with the Frogs when it happened.
Taliban Suicide Ducks, and Alcida Terrorist Geese.
Am I the only one that feels uncomfortable about flying drone strikes into Canada?
...to invade Canada was aborted....
-m
Aborted.... right! The drone never even saw the stealth snowmobile.
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
Manta 1 - Telemetry Weak
Manta 1 - Telemetry Lost
In other news, MQ-9 Reaper parts are now available on EBAY, free shipping to US and Canada destinations.
Rush, is that you?
If you haven't seen Loose Change and In Plane Sight on youtube you might want to watch them.
Sent from my ENIAC
Let it be aimed at Rob Ford!
In other news, there's a free drone in/on lake ontario! finders keepers!