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New details on F-16, drone collision in banned Arizona airspace
- ggm 2y agoOdd choice of image. It's an F-16 story and thats an F35?
- newzisforsukas 2y agoprobably generated from the source of this article: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/04/05/report-fighter-jet-that-collided-with-drone-mid-air-southern-arizona-suffered-no-damage/ https://www.azfamily.com/2024/04/05/report-fighter-jet-that-...
- ggm 2y agoIt's a variant of "use a 747" for a 380 story which happens all the time. Meh.. any plane will do.. (grabs stock shot of the red baron's triplane)
- sitkack 2y agoI love confusing paragliding and parasailing. Cessna and a Piper, ahh the chuckles.
- cm2187 2y agoI remember an old illustration in a French newspaper, to explain how a military B747 mounted missile interception system would work. For the B747 they reused the last clipart they had around which if you looked closely was a TWA B747. An unfortunate choice as that was shortly after the TWA Flight 800 crash, which was long rumoured to have been shot down by a rogue missile.
- sligor 2y agohttps://aviationhumor.net/journalists-guide-to-aircraft-identification/ https://aviationhumor.net/journalists-guide-to-aircraft-iden...
- inopinatus 2y agoMy favourite was a story about Space Shuttle orbiter re-entry that was illustrated with a brick.
- philipwhiuk 2y agoIt's affectionately referred to as a flying brick by Shuttle pilots & commanders.
- oefrha 2y agoI raise you U.S. senator and house rep using photos of foreign rivals’ ships to wish U.S. Navy a happy birthday: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-13/us-navy-birthday-china-ship-twitter-james-risch-3235758.html https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-13/us-navy-birth...
- throwiforgtnlzy 2y agoNews reporters are known for their extreme accuracy and precision, and their in-depth knowledge of subject matter. Maybe the MIC is still trying to convince US taxpayers to throw more countless trillions at nonfunctional pork projects for the benefit of Lockheed-Martin and uncountable layers of subcontractors? You know the A-10 just isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because it can't run 13 nested levels of hypervisors and K8s.
- JohnBooty 2y agoA-10 just isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because it can't run 13 nested levels of hypervisors and K8s. The A-10 isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because anti-air defenses are good, nearly ubiquitous, and cheap. And increasingly, man-portable. If you're fighting a foe more advanced than "some guys with AK-47s" then your A-10 will not be particularly survivable in 2014. Imagine a foe advanced and wealthy enough to have armored vehicles but it can't afford MANPADs or SAM installations.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoAt least the F-35 doesn't have six fingers and ten wings. All those "spot the difference between two photos" games from childhood are turning into critical life skills.
- e40 2y agoSome nation state has some pretty big balls. The downside for being caught seems quite high.
- sitkack 2y agoThe only outcome that seems plausible is that all personal drones are grounded. For maybe ever.
- non-chalad 2y agoBy you and what army? :D
- infecto 2y agoNot saying it would happen but this would be a pretty trivial thing to ban and identify people using controllers.
- beeeeerp 2y agoIt’s trivial to build your own with some basic soldering skills. I’m curious to see how this shakes down over the coming decades. I built some non-compliant (also non-autonomous) 450g drones before the 250g weight limit. They’re only for acrobatics at treetop level or below. It’s kind of silly IMO that this style is required to have a transponder now. This is speaking as someone who flies planes. For the store bought ones that require no forethought - I am glad those are regulated.
- throwiforgtnlzy 2y agoNation states, human/narco traffickers, or criminal-acting crazy people. 0.001% it was a stupid amateur. Either way, the source wasn't good. The prescription isn't more regulation but better defenses and integration of on-the-ground civ&mil police work.
- somenameforme 2y agoThe article is misleading or misinformed. There are numerous cheap consumer drones that can go miles high. The hardware is more than capable of it - it's just the firmware that's crippled, but it can be modded. You can also just make them quite easily. Here's [1] a video of a guy with a homemade drone that hit a height > 40k feet, along with links to buy the exact parts. It's almost certainly just people trolling, because it's somewhat predictably turning into the Great Balloon War of 2023, part 2. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QL0VjqYgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QL0VjqYgI
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoCreate a once-a-year drone holiday. If they can't get past the hobbyists and spies, that's good to know now rather than later.
- anovikov 2y agoThere's nothing said about what they found on the impact site. The drone leftovers could be telling, at least to find where it came from and who it could belong to?
- JosieTennis 2y agoIf the drones had transponders that could be tracked in the U-space, and there was an ATM model adopted that could track them, then this wouldn't be a mystery. Thales (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/aerospace/press_release/thales-and-thaicom-establish-foundation-lead-unmanned-traffic https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/aerospace/press_rel...) and Airbus (https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/autonomous-connected/airbus-unmanned-traffic-management https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/autonomous-connected/ai...) both say they have a model that tracks drones, even hobby drones.
- seszett 2y agoOne would assume that people who fly their drones in banned airspace would disable transponders.
- gravescale 2y agoI'm quite interested how the ground control station for that is set up, or if it's flying autonomously and in radio silence. If you're illicitly controlling a drone, presumably you don't want to be standing around holding a great big radio transmitter like a Vegas searchlight pinpointing your location. And you also don't want the drone to be broadcasting either since modern planes are bristling with electronic warfare sensors.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]