Predator Eulogy

Dos Gringos rip up the Predator UAV.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• MQ-1
• air
• force
• dos
• gringos
• luckypuppy.maddog
• funny
• song

[maddog2840]

Pilots dedicate their lives to flying. Not sitting in a phone booth playing video games. Many pilots assigned to the Predator are begging for aero clubs so that they can get back in the air.

[maddog2840]

TRUE STORY:

During Southern Watch a F-18 was patrolling and had the Iranians come up on the radio.

Iran: American aircraft, leave Iranian airspace or we will launch interceptors.

Hornet Pilot: Send 'em up.

[C2dltCAP]

give me a thumbs up if you want me to set a paper model MQ-1 on fire and put it on youtube!

[mininow]

When total air superiority is achieved, there's no need for military jets to fly. Assasination drones are better in these situations.

[Qui3tman]

@xXxDeitiesxXx Good luck man, we might not even have the money to maintain drones 8 years from now.

[se7en00110111]

You gotta feel sorry for UAV pilots, a lot of them go to OCS with big dreams of flying Vipers and Eagles in the Wild Blue Yonder, only to have them crushed because the Power Points and Excel spreadsheets don't lie: a disposable aircraft and a pilot out of harm's way is way more cost effective. It's a thankless job, but you know what? If no one did the thankless jobs in this world, we'd be up to our heads in shit, because no one would pick up our garbage or drop a Hellfire in a terrorist's lap.

[CropDusterMan]

Aircraft are for pilots to fly....not some pimple faced teenager flyin' outta some room back in Nevada who scored high on a video game in high school.

Nothing beats a pilots eyes, ears and intellect inside the map when it comes to thinking.and decision making.

[Qui3tman]

Haha the end picture is the future graduation flyover at USAFA obviously. They hung one of those things from the ceiling at the dining hall. They'd never foster cynicism though.

[chrisflyz20]

I remember at Riddle, they said the Iranians couldn't even fly at night or IFR. I guess they only shot down Iraqis during the day for their localized air victories. I think our average 14-year-old Flight Sim pilot could beat Iran in a dogfight. They put more time into it.

[ElementoVolatile]

You know, maybe the future will be adding drones as wingmen to a manned fighter, that gives targets to them by data-link. This way, a fighter pilot would ensure air superiority, while his drones would take care of ground targets.

[Magni56]

@DynamiteD5150

So? The French Airforce could beat about 90% of all contenders out there and give the remainder a pretty harsh fight. The Iranians just happen to be quite near the top of that 90%, what with having an actually quite nice arsenal and a track record of using it a darn sight better than most everyone in the region.

[DynamiteD5150]

@Magni56

Iran's AF is the equivalent of the Franklin county Civil Air Patrol. They have advanced anti-air missiles. Big whoop! They haven't had any air combat experience since 1984. Frankly, France could beat them.

[Magni56]

@ShiggityBlam

Afaik the Iranians at least somewhat got around the missile problem by modifiyng the MIM-23 Hawk to be launched by their F-14s. Saywhat you want, but these gus are pretty creative. Heh, they have to be to keep their Tomcats still flying.