The following video footage was taken in March by a U.S. Marine on the outskirts of a Taliban base in Afghanistan shows that the United States may have weapon systems that have heretofore never been seen by anyone outside of the compartmentalized development teams that built it.
Some people think it’s some extraterrestrial UFO …. which, imho, is pretty lame.
Sure would hate to be some poor schmuck camel-jockey at a wedding party when that motherfucker unleashes hell.
Probably blew up some sheepherder’s tent. BC-LR to all
As soon as the “camel-jockeys” get any 1st-gen SAMs our “drone superiority” goes bye-bye. BC-LR to all
That’s the perfect weapon for the US military. It is high tech, anonymous and cowardly. It is only good for killing third worlders. It wouldn’t last a minute against the Rooskies.
The military already has “balloon drones” the can hover for days and are loaded with ordnance and missiles. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
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The tether seems like a golden opportunity to use existing public-domain hardware to do some “pruning”.
If Jeff Bezos’s drones can lift (and carry) 2.5kg, that’s enough for a motorised shear or even disk cutter, with lightweight Li Ion battery pack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazons-new-delivery-drones/
Add in off-the-shelf realtime inflight video, and voila – all of a sudden this multimillion dollar blimp develops a min of its own . . .
There’s an anti-drug aerostat near Marfa, Texas According to the operational group (DEA or Customs), it must be taken down if the wind is a 20 knots or more. In that part of Texas, 20 knots is nearly a calm day.
So on a windy day, a phone rings in Mexico, 70 miles away, and the caller says, “The balloon’s down. Bring that load, now!”
Here is the original video on which this doctored up fake is based:
I believe there are several of those balloons all along the border with Mexico. I ran across one out
in the middle of no where North of Rio Grande City, Tx. Supposedly they’re used for interdiction of drug smuggling airplanes that land at various ranches in South Texas, a couple of which were reportedly owned by a local Sheriff who is still in prison, as are a couple of others from down there.
That video is an edited video of some Marine watching a JDAM drop. You can find the original video here:
Dammit!!!! I apologize for posting a fake video.