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  • #76
    Bumped thread for wilco.


    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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    • #77
      Ask Joshua about them.


      Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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      • #78
        perhaps joshua could contribute to this thread when hes online next

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        • #79
          Bought Israeli mini UAV's last year. Orbiters. Deployed in Chad. Excellent bit of kit. Needs minding. The chicken stranglers lost one due to malfunction and another crashed on take off from Camp Ciara last June. This has been widely reported in the papers. Others there. Extreme heat in Chad effects the control surgfaces of them...therefore while they work pewrfextly in the Israerli Negev, the 50+ in Chad isn't the best.

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Jetjock View Post
            Got them and lost/crashed them. Haven't heard any updates lately.
            Heard all sorts of stories about what happened to them, everything including being sold to the Chinese on the Somali Black Market.

            They seem to have disappeared into the abyss that is the Army bureaucratic system.

            Probably holed up somewhere where they can be wheeled out everytime the media want to see them but away from anyone who might actually make any use of them.

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            • #81
              Last I heard they were used in chad. One of them went down with a dust clog, the other lost contact with its controller and when that happens its programmed to return to home base. Problem was that home base is the curragh.
              To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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              • #82
                Originally posted by WilcoOut View Post
                perhaps joshua could contribute to this thread when hes online next
                1.I have done as you asked.

                2.Read my signature WO

                3.Goldie is biting his lip.

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                • #83
                  thanks boys and girls!

                  my curiosity has been quenched!

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Jetjock View Post
                    Got them and lost/crashed them. Haven't heard any updates lately.
                    One of them was involved in an Arty Ex in the glen a few weeks ago and worked just fine.
                    Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by HavocIRL View Post
                      Last I heard they were used in chad. One of them went down with a dust clog, the other lost contact with its controller and when that happens its programmed to return to home base. Problem was that home base is the curragh.


                      Strangely that rarely happens with piloted aircraft. I wonder how far it got?!

                      Smirking less threatened pilot with evil smile on his face!

                      On a serious note, it is an extremely lightweight piece of kit but a good capability demonstrator all the same. Im not pushing for operational info-I know better, but as someone who has a good knowledge of aircraft and how they work, an aircraft this small would be limited even in moderate weather conditions, particularly gusts.

                      Items like this are real force multipliers. They allow bodies on the ground to be direted to where they are needed and can cover large areas of ground much more quickly and discretely than ground forces. UAV technology has advanced and become much more widely used in the past two decades and consequently, one would imagine, reduced in cost. In the modern "information battlefield" Is there a case for say a €10-15m outlay on a small fleet of more rugged longer range UAV's?

                      Notwithstanding the current economic climate of course.

                      With something as lightweight as the Orbiter, it would be wrong to make it a central part of military doctrine. If conditions prevail where it would become unusable, as they regularly would here and have shown to in it's first operational theatre in Chad, it certainly would not be a good thing to have forces on the ground relying on it. Therefore it is only an incidental additional capability and one wonders what use that really is?

                      To put this post into one sentence: Did the Orbiter have a chance to demonstrate a sufficient capability to now justify the purchase of a more reliable/rugged platform?
                      Last edited by Jetjock; 2 December 2008, 01:33.

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by parade boy View Post
                        Bought Israeli mini UAV's last year. Orbiters. Deployed in Chad. Excellent bit of kit. Needs minding. The chicken stranglers lost one due to malfunction and another crashed on take off from Camp Ciara last June. This has been widely reported in the papers. Others there. Extreme heat in Chad effects the control surgfaces of them...therefore while they work pewrfextly in the Israerli Negev, the 50+ in Chad isn't the best.

                        http://www.aeronautics-sys.com/?Cate...&ArticleID=169
                        Who are the Chicken Stranglers?:confused:
                        "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"

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                        • #87
                          Originally posted by Steamy Window View Post
                          Who are the Chicken Stranglers?:confused:
                          the wing,

                          "apparently" they have to do a survival ex where they go out with a chicken, and at the end of the ex (dont know the duration, if it is in anyway true) they have to kill said fowl, "apparently"
                          But there's no danger
                          It's a professional career
                          Though it could be arranged
                          With just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear
                          If you're out of luck you're out of work
                          We could send you to johannesburg.

                          (Elvis Costello, Olivers Army)

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                          • #88
                            UAVs aren't just for the Army: here's one for the Navy,

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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by turbocalves View Post
                              the wing,

                              "apparently" they have to do a survival ex where they go out with a chicken, and at the end of the ex (dont know the duration, if it is in anyway true) they have to kill said fowl, "apparently"
                              That "chicken stranglers" nickname seems to be applied to every SF unit in the Western World, the Aussie, NZSAS, the 2 main British SF, ect ect....I wonder what the Russians call their guys
                              Dr. Venture: Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?

                              Dr. Venture: Dean, you smell like a whore

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by easyrider View Post
                                UAVs aren't just for the Army: here's one for the Navy,

                                And it can be armed too, Thales stuck 2 new LMM missiles on it.... and it's small, nice for the NS
                                Dr. Venture: Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?

                                Dr. Venture: Dean, you smell like a whore

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