Situation Critical: Downed Pilot - Part 1/5

June 1995. When NATO pilot Scott O'Grady's F-16 jet is downed by a missile over Bosnia, he ejects successfully but lands in hostile territory, sparking a massive manhunt and a struggle for survival.

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[Hperman09]

When will unmanned aircraft replaced the jets and attack-helicopters in the cockpits in the future? So that way, we don't have to worry about the pilot being shot down in their cockpits and others had to risk their lives to get them. Pilots were also caught and used as human shields, jailed, and /or executed.

We don't need another "O'Grady" incident on anywhere else. I wonder the U.S. military is up to these days with their unmanned aircraft and the continual use of pilots in the cockpits?

[Marh044]

the anti air system used is a SA 6

[warzer0]

@Hperman09

Sure it can be done. We just have to invent 100% secure communications method that cannot be disrupted.

Translation: We'd have to invent the Holy Grail of communications and cryptography. It's about as probable as perfecting cold fusion right now. Otherwise you get situations like Iranians stealing top secret US airforce drones by spoofing GPS situations, but that could *never* happen right? ;)

[Radiohead420DJ]

Fuck yeah. Serbs are one of the few who had the balls to stand up to NATO. muwahaha

[tflspitfire]

9:42 is a mig or soming else but no f-16

[possumGFX]

@blackjackhp Italian AMX Ghibli. Built by Alenia, Aermacchi and Embraer for the Italian and the Brazilian Air Force.

[JusticeSrbija]

@Godspart0n whatever all i know is usa killed a lot of people directly and indirectly.

[Hperman09]

@Carnalismo88 Unmanned aircraft is always flown by the qualified pilot as always. Just one day, i hope it will replace the pilots in the cockpits. Because the pilots in their cockpits can have huge amount of risk for their families and for their commanders in the field when they get shot down over enemy terrotory.

[Carnalismo88]

@Hperman09 It's a very expensive project. And without justified cause (like war) they cannot justifie the Cost.

It would only make things more expansive for the military. Specially if they only replace fighters, while the rest of the fleet still needs pilots on board.

Btw, a Fighter needs to be flown. Manned or unmanned, stille needs to be operated by a qualified person.

So unless they do it for all aircraft, my guess is they won't.

As they allready dream about it since WW2

[Godspart0n]

@JusticeSrbija It's not killing innocent people if it's war. If you count casualties of war as "killing innocent people", then most large countries in the world have a higher kill count than the US. And how did 3-4 million people die in Vietnam. 2 million would even be high. If it wasn't for the US and their ally's peace keeping efforts, the world would have nuked itself to hell years ago.