What is it ?

[Mick.B]

Suspected US drone found floating off Philippines - Australia Network News - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-08/an-suspected-us-drone-washes-up-in-philippines/4456406)

[Not_a_boffin]

One of these?

BQM-74E Aerial Target (http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/targets_bqm74e/index.html)

[ETOPS]

I'd say, given that it has the word "TARGET" stencilled on the side, it's possibly a target.

[Lightning Mate]

Definitely the BQM-74E Chukar III.

[Prop Fwd]

You can Just make out 74E behind NAVY

[green granite]

I'd say, given that it has the word "TARGET" stencilled on the side, it's possibly a target.

A bit like the farmer who ploughs up a bomb, rings the police and says "you'd better get the bomb squad here urgently as it's dangerous, it's got I N E R T written on the side of it."

[getsometimein]

"A technical evaluation determined that the object is one unmanned aerial vehicle,"

Woa, stop with the technical details!

Not sure how they came to this conclusion... Perhaps it was the absence of a seat....

[teeteringhead]

Interesting indication of a change in perceptions ......

........ a few years ago it would surely have been called a "bomb", a "missile" or (given the prominent "Navy") perhaps a "torpedo".

[chopper2004]

:cool:NAS Cubi Point re opened for business again?