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Monday, December 5, 2011

The Predator Drone


  The Predator Drone, unmanned plane is one of the new clandestine weapon of warfare that crept into military circles, for several year it existed in the fantasy stories of futuristic poets. Today what used to be an electronic toy evolved to become one of the most deadliest and most feared weapon of warfare.

  The RQ-170 Sentinel the stealthy UAV reportedly does not use the most sophisticated U.S. military technology because as a single engine UAV, it was judged to have a higher likelihood of occasionally going down.
The unmanned war plane. 1800 novelists imagined it, the flying machine that will usher in the end of the world. 
The clean principle was with right intention, reduce causalities in war, this principle was at the heart of the development of the RQ-1 and MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.

These high-tech aircraft, controlled by a ground crew miles away from the dangers of combat, are capable of reconnaissance, combat and support roles in the hairiest of battles. In a worst-case scenario, if a Predator is lost in battle, military personal can simply "crack another one out of the box" and have it up in the air shortly -- and that's without the trauma of casualties or prisoners normally associated with an aircraft going down.

Pilots sits in ground flight simulator while controlling the flight and picture taking, maneuvering, and terror unleashing abilities of the plane miles away!

The Predator is a spy plane that can surpass an altitude of 60,000 feet, and survey 40,000 square miles, of territory in a day, and which cannot be easily seen from the ground.

The Predator can Fly at up to 25,000 feet for around 20 hours at a time, the drone was supposed to be a pure surveillance aircraft. But starting in late 2000, the Clinton and Bush administrations decided to outfit the Predator with Hellfire missiles to reduce the lag time between identifying Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and attempting to take him out. Bureaucratic wrangling delayed the armament, but in November 2002, a CIA-operated armed Predator blew up a Jeep carrying some of bin Laden’s acolyte. The age of the Predator — an age of remotely piloted air war — had begun.