US drone crashes near Chaman

[Slides]

This drone can also detect nuclear weapons through air samples.

http://www.theissaviation.com/AFRL Bird.html

 

[Chogy]

News are coming that the UAV crashed can fly like a bird

That FESTO bird is awesome! From any distance it'd be tough to tell it's fake.

That crashed drone is no Raven. I'm not sure what it is.

 

[WAQAS119]

The drone was Festo Smart Bird....!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=258881620800522

 

[manojb]

May be that bird was hungry.. or some male bird thought its female bird ..

 

[WAQAS119]

May be that bird was hungry.. or some male bird thought its female bird ..

But that Smart Bird was meant to dodge those horny male birds together with spying. So how can she just crash?

 

[muse]

But that Smart Bird was meant to dodge those horny male birds together with spying. So how can she just crash?

How uniquely inappropriate you have put it - no small feat - and of course what kind of sensors did ti have on it and who is operating them?

 

[WAQAS119]

How uniquely inappropriate you have put it - no small feat - and of course what kind of sensors did ti have on it and who is operating them?

DHMB sensors....! DHMS for Dodging Horny Male Birds!

 

[Imran Khan]

May be that bird was hungry.. or some male bird thought its female bird ..

wait now PAC guys will make its kabaabs and send to CAC lolz again new tech in our hands lolz

 

[sur]

 

[WAQAS119]

wait now PAC guys will make its kabaabs and send to CAC lolz again new tech in our hands lolz

So far their has been no hue and cry by US over wreckage!

 

[Imran Khan]

So far their has been no hue and cry by US over wreckage!

we can not god damn daily give them wreckage .

 

[Chogy]

The drone is obviously one of those models that is little more than an R/C hobby airplane fitted with cameras. Nothing particularly exotic or valuable.

 

[Jango]

A small drone, which can be launched by a four man crew, you just make an launch cable , just like the arrester wire of aircraft carrier, give it an arrow like propulsion, and then the propellor has enough power to keep it in flight. Nothing big, so no problem.

 

[unicorn]

Is It A Bird? No, It’s an American UAV
By: Chris Pocock

U.S. special or covert forces are using hand-launched UAVs disguised as large birds to monitor terrorist movements along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Pakistan Frontier Corps recovered one such UAV after it crashed on August 25 near one of its border forts in Baluchistan.

Photos released by news agencies show a propeller-driven design with a six-foot cranked wingspan and a four-foot centerbody that narrows to a rudder, topped by a horizontal fan tail. A Pakistan military spokesman identified the UAV as American, unarmed and equipped with two cameras. It developed a technical fault, and was not shot down, he added.

Some mini-UAVs operating in the region are named after large birds, but none of them closely resemble the downed craft. Thousands of Aerovironment Ravens have been built for the U.S. Army. The Pakistan armed forces themselves operate the indigenously designed and produced Border Eagle. Lockheed Martin has produced the Desert Hawk for the British Army.

The Lockheed UAV was designed by the Skunk Works, which then developed the Stalker mini-UAV for sale to “special operations communities.” The electric propulsion system of the Stalker is silent, according to Lockheed Martin. The company has just revealed a new hybrid fuel cell/battery powered version of the Stalker that can fly for eight hours.

Despite the downed UAV’s disguise, residents of the nearby village of Chaman were apparently not fooled. They told Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper that they witnessed it flying for two hours before the accident.

While unusual, bird-like UAVs are not a new concept. In the early 1970s, the CIA implemented Project Aquiline, a scheme devised to fly an eagle-like reconnaissance UAV over key intelligence targets, such as ICBM sites and nuclear test grounds in the Soviet Union and China. Although a prototype made some 20 flights over Groom Lake, Nevada, the project was canceled due to the expected high cost of further development.

Is It A Bird? No, It

 

[A1Kaid]

How uniquely inappropriate you have put it - no small feat - and of course what kind of sensors did ti have on it and who is operating them?

You forgot to blame this on Islam...