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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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Originally posted by Jetjock View PostGot them and lost/crashed them. Haven't heard any updates lately.
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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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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Originally posted by HavocIRL View PostLast 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, 00:33.
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Originally posted by parade boy View PostBought 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"Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"
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Originally posted by Steamy Window View PostWho are the Chicken Stranglers?:confused:
"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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Originally posted by turbocalves View Postthe 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"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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Originally posted by easyrider View PostUAVs aren't just for the Army: here's one for the Navy,
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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