UAV was shot down in syria rumored that it belongs to the USA
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Lol does that mean after RQ-17 this one is also going to Iranians ?
MQ-1 isn't anything new, lol.
didn't Pakistan sell a downed MQ-1 to China to develop CH-3/Burraq.
not sure what you can gain from a pile of burnt rubble.
MQ-1 didn't even resemble CH-3. Stop your nonsense.
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it doesn't have to have the same airframe
MQ-1 been around for decades. nothing left to reverse engineer. you would think China would be past that point and moving on to more advance drones
So it just pure rubbishing from you?it doesn't have to have the same airframe
MQ-1 been around for decades. nothing left to reverse engineer. you would think China would be past that point and moving on to more advance drones
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it's expendable.
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U.S. says it lost a drone aircraft in Syria
By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor,
The Associated Press 6:20 p.m. EDT March 17, 2015
WASHINGTON — A U.S. official says a U.S. Predator drone aircraft went down in Syria, but it's not clear whether it was shot down.
The Syrian government claimed Tuesday that it had shot down a U.S. drone in a northwestern province along the Mediterranean coast.
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not yet announced the loss, said U.S. officials were trying to determine why operators of the drone lost control of it. Drones are being flown over Syria to provide reconnaissance of certain parts of the country.
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor,
The Associated Press 6:20 p.m. EDT March 17, 2015
WASHINGTON — A U.S. official says a U.S. Predator drone aircraft went down in Syria, but it's not clear whether it was shot down.
The Syrian government claimed Tuesday that it had shot down a U.S. drone in a northwestern province along the Mediterranean coast.
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not yet announced the loss, said U.S. officials were trying to determine why operators of the drone lost control of it. Drones are being flown over Syria to provide reconnaissance of certain parts of the country.
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Who the fck is that in your avatar dude?
Maulana Tahir Asrafi halway wala. Show some respect dude...
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Downed US drone spying in Islamic State-free area: Syria army source | Zee News
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 15:40
Damascus: Syria`s military downed a US drone in the country`s west because it was snooping in an area where Islamic State jihadists are not present, a military source said Wednesday.
"Did the drone come into Syrian territory just to have a picnic?" asked the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"As soon as it entered Syrian air space, we considered it to be gathering security and military information on Syria`s territory," he told AFP.
The source said the aircraft was not immediately identified as being American, but was "dealt with as a hostile target".
Syrian air defences shot down the aircraft over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said Tuesday.
The US military confirmed it had lost communication with an unarmed Predator drone on Tuesday over northwest Syria and was looking into the claims it was brought down.
A US-led coalition has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria since September, but Syria`s military said the drone did not appear to be part of that effort.
"The aircraft entered areas where Daesh is not present," the military source said, using the Arabic acronym for the group.
He said investigations were ongoing, but that it was likely the drone entered Syria from Turkey.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the drone was shot down in Al-Maqata, a village near the provincial capital of Latakia.
"There are no opposition fighters or jihadist groups anywhere in that area, but there is a large presence of regime forces," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
AFP
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 15:40
Damascus: Syria`s military downed a US drone in the country`s west because it was snooping in an area where Islamic State jihadists are not present, a military source said Wednesday.
"Did the drone come into Syrian territory just to have a picnic?" asked the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"As soon as it entered Syrian air space, we considered it to be gathering security and military information on Syria`s territory," he told AFP.
The source said the aircraft was not immediately identified as being American, but was "dealt with as a hostile target".
Syrian air defences shot down the aircraft over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said Tuesday.
The US military confirmed it had lost communication with an unarmed Predator drone on Tuesday over northwest Syria and was looking into the claims it was brought down.
A US-led coalition has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria since September, but Syria`s military said the drone did not appear to be part of that effort.
"The aircraft entered areas where Daesh is not present," the military source said, using the Arabic acronym for the group.
He said investigations were ongoing, but that it was likely the drone entered Syria from Turkey.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the drone was shot down in Al-Maqata, a village near the provincial capital of Latakia.
"There are no opposition fighters or jihadist groups anywhere in that area, but there is a large presence of regime forces," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
AFP
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Predator UAV lost over Syria
9 p.m. EDT March 17, 2015
An MQ-1 Predator was lost Tuesday while flying over northwest Syria, according to a defense official.
Syria's official news agency claimed the drone hwas shot down, but the defense official was unable to say exactly how the unmanned aircraft crashed.
The Air Force is in the process of phasing out Predators in favor of the newer MQ-9 Reaper. The service's proposed budget for fiscal 2016 would raise the number of Reaper combat air patrols from 55 to 60 within a 24-hour period while lowering the number of combat air patrols Predators fly from 10 to five per day.
Reapers can carry eight times the payload of Predators and armed with a mixture of Hellfire missiles and Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or smart bombs, said Benjamin Newell, a spokesman for Air Combat Command.
"MQ-9 is also equipped with Synthetic Aperture Radar," Newell said in a Feb. 12 email to Air Force Times. "MQ-9 has one-and-a-half the range of an MQ-1, can cruise nearly three times as fast and carries six times more fuel."
The Air Force hopes to retrain about 60 Predator pilots to fly Reapers next fiscal year, he said.
But Air Force officials have long warned that the current generation of remotely piloted aircraft cannot survive airspace that is defended by enemy aircraft and ever-more sophisticated anti-aircraft systems.
A Predator armed with a Stinger reportedly got into a brief dogfight with an Iraqi plane in 2003 — and lost.
In 2013, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said remotely piloted aircraft sometimes needed to be protected by fighter escorts. That September, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh jokingly recounted one incident in which an F-22 pilot warned off two Iranian F-4s that were trying to intercept an unmanned aircraft over the Persian Gulf.
"After he rejoined on them, flew underneath their aircraft to check out their weapons load without them knowing he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said, 'You really ought to go home," Welsh said on Sept. 17, 2013, at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference.
But Gen. Mike Hostage, then head of Air Combat Command, was much more serious when he told reporters at the same conference that Predators and Reapers are "useless" in contested airspace, Foreign Policy reported.
"Today … I couldn't put [a Predator or Reaper] into the Strait of Hormuz without having to put airplanes there to protect it," Foreign Policy quoted Hostage as saying on Sept. 19, 2013.
The U.S. lost contact with an unarmed MQ-1 Predator drone on Mar. 17.
Whilst Pentagon officials could not confirm whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed because of a failure, the Syrian SANA news agency reported that the unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the Latakia province by the Syrian air defenses.
Screen grabAn unarmed US drone was shot down in the Latakia province in Syria.
The U.S. lost contact with an unarmed MQ-1 Predator drone on Mar. 17.
Whilst Pentagon officials could not confirm whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed because of a failure, the Syrian SANA news agency reported that the unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the Latakia province by the Syrian air defenses.
Indeed, images of the wreckage of an aerial vehicle were later posted on social media: provided the photographs were really taken at the crash site, they show parts of the UAV (including a wheel of the landing gear) along with parts of what seems to be the body an S-125 Neva/Pechora (NATO reporting name SA-3 Goa) Soviet surface-to-air missile system: this may confirm the version of the Syrian State Media according to which the MQ-1, most probably operating out of Incirlik airbase, in Turkey, was shot down.
The event is interesting for several reasons:
1) it proves U.S. drones perform ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) missions in a region (on the western coast of Syria) currently not interested by the air strikes targeting the Islamic State. Monitoring jihadist activities in the area? Keeping an eye on the fighting between rebels and loyalist forces? Monitoring shipments that reach Syria via sea?
2) if the shot down is confirmed, it proves that Assad fires back and Syrian air defenses can pose a threat to manned and unmanned aircraft that operate inside the Syrian airspace.
3) the area where the drone was allegedly shot down is the same where a Turkish RF-4E jet was shot down by a coastal air defense battery.
9 p.m. EDT March 17, 2015
An MQ-1 Predator was lost Tuesday while flying over northwest Syria, according to a defense official.
Syria's official news agency claimed the drone hwas shot down, but the defense official was unable to say exactly how the unmanned aircraft crashed.
The Air Force is in the process of phasing out Predators in favor of the newer MQ-9 Reaper. The service's proposed budget for fiscal 2016 would raise the number of Reaper combat air patrols from 55 to 60 within a 24-hour period while lowering the number of combat air patrols Predators fly from 10 to five per day.
Reapers can carry eight times the payload of Predators and armed with a mixture of Hellfire missiles and Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or smart bombs, said Benjamin Newell, a spokesman for Air Combat Command.
"MQ-9 is also equipped with Synthetic Aperture Radar," Newell said in a Feb. 12 email to Air Force Times. "MQ-9 has one-and-a-half the range of an MQ-1, can cruise nearly three times as fast and carries six times more fuel."
The Air Force hopes to retrain about 60 Predator pilots to fly Reapers next fiscal year, he said.
But Air Force officials have long warned that the current generation of remotely piloted aircraft cannot survive airspace that is defended by enemy aircraft and ever-more sophisticated anti-aircraft systems.
A Predator armed with a Stinger reportedly got into a brief dogfight with an Iraqi plane in 2003 — and lost.
In 2013, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said remotely piloted aircraft sometimes needed to be protected by fighter escorts. That September, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh jokingly recounted one incident in which an F-22 pilot warned off two Iranian F-4s that were trying to intercept an unmanned aircraft over the Persian Gulf.
"After he rejoined on them, flew underneath their aircraft to check out their weapons load without them knowing he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said, 'You really ought to go home," Welsh said on Sept. 17, 2013, at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference.
But Gen. Mike Hostage, then head of Air Combat Command, was much more serious when he told reporters at the same conference that Predators and Reapers are "useless" in contested airspace, Foreign Policy reported.
"Today … I couldn't put [a Predator or Reaper] into the Strait of Hormuz without having to put airplanes there to protect it," Foreign Policy quoted Hostage as saying on Sept. 19, 2013.
The U.S. lost contact with an unarmed MQ-1 Predator drone on Mar. 17.
Whilst Pentagon officials could not confirm whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed because of a failure, the Syrian SANA news agency reported that the unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the Latakia province by the Syrian air defenses.
The U.S. lost contact with an unarmed MQ-1 Predator drone on Mar. 17.
Whilst Pentagon officials could not confirm whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed because of a failure, the Syrian SANA news agency reported that the unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the Latakia province by the Syrian air defenses.
Indeed, images of the wreckage of an aerial vehicle were later posted on social media: provided the photographs were really taken at the crash site, they show parts of the UAV (including a wheel of the landing gear) along with parts of what seems to be the body an S-125 Neva/Pechora (NATO reporting name SA-3 Goa) Soviet surface-to-air missile system: this may confirm the version of the Syrian State Media according to which the MQ-1, most probably operating out of Incirlik airbase, in Turkey, was shot down.
The event is interesting for several reasons:
1) it proves U.S. drones perform ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) missions in a region (on the western coast of Syria) currently not interested by the air strikes targeting the Islamic State. Monitoring jihadist activities in the area? Keeping an eye on the fighting between rebels and loyalist forces? Monitoring shipments that reach Syria via sea?
2) if the shot down is confirmed, it proves that Assad fires back and Syrian air defenses can pose a threat to manned and unmanned aircraft that operate inside the Syrian airspace.
3) the area where the drone was allegedly shot down is the same where a Turkish RF-4E jet was shot down by a coastal air defense battery.
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Good chance it will end up in Iran somehow.
That's why USA often tries to bomb crashed drones with another drone.
It's not hard to recognize burnt parts. I mean even if everything was burnt to a crisp, people in the field will be able to recognize the various parts. If they are very incompetent even then at least they can see that Part A goes in the tail section, and how long its supposed to be, ratios and all, the aerodynamic frame.
That's why USA often tries to bomb crashed drones with another drone.
Well the F-22 pilot must be relieved that he didn't run into QAHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-313
