Another Watchkeeper down

[downsizer]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10921667/British-Army-loses-SEVENTH-Watchkeeper-drone-Cyprus-crash.html

Whoops....

And to keep this thread vaguely on topic as the Mil History forum I wonder what it had for lunch?

https://twitter.com/geoallison/status/1537376613830209536?s=20&t=ZwyFOqTEpAgMqVU41C8zBA

https://twitter.com/geoallison/status/1537376479692132357?s=20&t=ZwyFOqTEpAgMqVU41C8zBA

[Two's in]

Direct quote from the article:

"The aerial surveillance platform has been beset by problems and has seen the budget spiral from £800m to more than £1.4 million."

That's about what you would expect from the source.

[Lonewolf_50]

And to keep this thread vaguely on topic as the Mil History forum I wonder what it had for lunch? I will guess either a Gullburger or a FODburger. :uhoh:
(I love that it floats. Also, hopefully the investigation team get a good read on what caused the crash).

[NutLoose]

A dead Watchkeeper, does that make it tikka tokka Timex then?

It makes you wonder when it cannot fly in all weathers in Europe as to the point off it all.

[Octane]

It got dizzy

[WB627]

£30m for a model aircraft :confused::confused::confused: Seriously :eek:

[Saint Jack]

£30m for a model aircraft :confused::confused::confused: Seriously :eek:
Not the aircraft as such, rather the equipment on board.

[jolihokistix]

Or some external source?

[Rigga]

I worked with the airframe maker some years ago and they were grateful for the somewhat regular replacement work....

[VX275]

There's something odd about that photo of it floating in the water. Where are the sensor turrets?

[Sue Vêtements]

"The aerial surveillance platform has been beset by problems and has seen the budget spiral from £800m to more than £1.4 million."

Pedantic I know, but if you look at a spiral it's a lot like a circle in that it goes in all directions, so if costs were "spiraling" they'd be oscillating between going up and down (amongst other repeated changes)

To be sure a spiral has, within its definition, the fact that it traces a locus that's forever getting further away from (or indeed nearer to) the starting point, so perhaps that's what they mean

:confused:

...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying

[DuncanDoenitz]

...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying

Maybe they did mean helix; like, you know, a spiral staircase.

[Sideshow Bob]

Pedantic I know, but if you look at a spiral it's a lot like a circle in that it goes in all directions, so if costs were "spiraling" they'd be oscillating between going up and down (amongst other repeated changes)

To be sure a spiral has, within its definition, the fact that it traces a locus that's forever getting further away from (or indeed nearer to) the starting point, so perhaps that's what they mean

:confused:

...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying

A spiral is a winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either round a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone. However, in this case spiral is a progressive rise or fall of prices, wages, etc., each responding to an upward or downward stimulus provided by a previous one as in "an inflationary spiral". Now who's being pedantic!! ;)

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Google is your friend spiral
/ˈspʌɪrəl/adjective


1.winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either round a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone:"a spiral pattern"

noun


1.a spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object:"a spiral of smoke"
2.a progressive rise or fall of prices, wages, etc., each responding to an upward or downward stimulus provided by a previous one:"an inflationary spiral"


helix
/ˈhiːlɪks/noun


1.an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase.
2.the rim of the external ear.

[KiloB]

Considering the forum, I’m surprised that no one has mentioned ’spiral dive’!

[ORAC]

Death spiral may be a more appropriate term.