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Europe under extreme duress

nittany03

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
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CJCS: "It probably broke up. There's probably not a lot to recover, frankly,'' Milley said. "As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, etc., as normal we would take and we did take mitigating measures, so we're quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.''

www.usatoday.com

Russia to try to salvage wrecked US drone; Gen. Milley says 'not a lot to recover': Ukraine war updates

Two Russian SU-27 fighters conducted an intercept of the MQ-9 drone Tuesday, forcing US operators to crash it in the Black Sea. Updates.
www.usatoday.com
 
Griz882

Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
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Mos said:
Per the USAF fact sheet, that would not be per aircraft, but for a package of four aircraft, ground station, and the SATCOM link.

www.af.mil

MQ-9 Reaper

The MQ-9 Reaper is employed primarily as an intelligence-collection asset and secondarily against dynamic execution targets.
www.af.mil
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Ahhhh…a package deal. Sweet!
 
Swanee

Swanee

Cereal Killer
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Interesting to see how quickly we released the footage. Rule #1 of an intercept is to not hit what you're intercepting.

The Instagram videos are great.
sevenhelmet said:
For just the airplane? I’m surprised it’s that much, actually.
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Brett327 said:
That sounded high to me too. I think I saw an $11M figure somewhere recently.
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11M is more accurate for a baseline airplane. Pods and some other stuff cost more. The USMC probably knows the whole system cost better. I don't think AF or ANG has bought a complete system in a few years.

nittany03 said:
CJCS: "It probably broke up. There's probably not a lot to recover, frankly,'' Milley said. "As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, etc., as normal we would take and we did take mitigating measures, so we're quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.''

www.usatoday.com

Russia to try to salvage wrecked US drone; Gen. Milley says 'not a lot to recover': Ukraine war updates

Two Russian SU-27 fighters conducted an intercept of the MQ-9 drone Tuesday, forcing US operators to crash it in the Black Sea. Updates.
www.usatoday.com
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I laughed out loud at "the drones abrupt maneuver" part. Hold onto your vodka Ivan, we're about to do a 10 degree AOB turn!
 
MIDNJAC

MIDNJAC

is clara ship
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nittany03 said:
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Speaking of bears....was headed home from east coast a couple weeks back, dark, quiet night up at 380 or something. Out of the blue, Captain Happy checks in "GOOOD EVENING MINNIE CENTER, DELTA XYZ, 350 with 2 questions"

[mildly amused center controller] "Roger Delta XYZ, go ahead"

(first question was something related to their clearance and the GLASR arrival into SEA). "Ok next question.....what do you call a bear with no teeth?"

.......random dad on freq comes up with "a gummy bear"

"yes, yes, that's right haha. Ok, why aren't Koala's considered to be bears?"

[I think you can almost hear the center controller's eyes roll into the back of her head at this point out of cringing]

[more silence]

"Because they don't have the KOALAFICATIONS!"

"Delta, there must be a lonely lady somewhere tonight missing her comedian"
 
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