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Militants in Iraq intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones

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Old 20th Dec 2009, 19:46
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Wot he said...

By the way, the USAF are going back to the word Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) for this very reason.
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Old 20th Dec 2009, 20:29
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BTW, here's some pics of the Queen Bee from 1935 - RPAs are hardly new!





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Old 20th Dec 2009, 21:07
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Why didn't they use it to their advantage? Get an Osama lookalike, film have him doing unspeakable things to the back of a pig, put it into the feed then sit back & watch the turbans fly!
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Old 21st Dec 2009, 08:41
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RPV, UAV, UCAV...now a new Spam abbreviation, RPA?

They're all 'drones' to the rest of the world. Sorry if you touchy drone operators don't like, but that's the fact.

UAS, by the way, is 'University Air Squadron' - and has been for over 70 years. UAS flights from Boscombe Down, for example, would have ambiguous meaning if the daft 'UAS' term for drones were to continue.
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UAS, by the way, is 'University Air Squadron' - and has been for over 70 years. UAS flights from Boscombe Down, for example, would have ambiguous meaning if the daft 'UAS' term for drones were to continue.
... I couldn't agree more.

BTW, Beags, is that you supervising the LAC and Cpl adjusting the control panel for the Queen Bee?

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Old 21st Dec 2009, 18:29
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Sorry to disillusion some of you guys, but the following was state of the art electronics circa 1935.



Hard to imagine it fitting inside that "control panel".
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