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jakeXT

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9. U.S. Air Force asked to help in missing drone search

Reply to Oakenshield (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 05:59 PM

Nov 2013

The New York Air National Guard asked the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday for help in finding a multimillion-dollar military drone that crashed into Lake Ontario a day earlier.

The Syracuse-based 174th Attack Wing asked the Air Force to send an HC-130 search aircraft to look for the missing MQ-9 Reaper, according to Eric Durr, a spokesman for the New York state Division of Military and Naval Affairs, based in suburban Albany.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-air-force-asked-to-help-in-missing-drone-search-1.2425570

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Military drones grounded in Central New York following crash in Lake Ontario [View all] jakeXT Nov 2013 OP

No decision Marcuslee11 Nov 2013 #1

Much harder to hide malfunctions when flying drones in this country. RC Nov 2013 #5

$4M?! DJ13 Nov 2013 #2

They did, but the MIC said that wouldn't be profitable enough. Scuba Nov 2013 #3

+100 RC Nov 2013 #6

And then you got the stuff on the ground jakeXT Nov 2013 #4

$500 airplanes don't have a 7000 pound take-off weight FarCenter Nov 2013 #11

........Or carry GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided bombs. DJ13 Nov 2013 #12

Well this was a training flight that went down. FarCenter Nov 2013 #13

The Canadians probly shot it down. Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #7

I think that windbag Rob Ford u4ic Nov 2013 #14

Nah. No way. He gets his drug deliveries from the States by drone. Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #15

Unable to recover it? Oakenshield Nov 2013 #8

U.S. Air Force asked to help in missing drone search jakeXT Nov 2013 #9

Encouraging. Oakenshield Nov 2013 #10