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Title: The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster
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URL Source: https://www.wired.com/story/iran-global-hawk-drone-surveillance/
Published: Jun 21, 2019
Author: staff
Post Date: 2019-06-21 08:59:09 by Horse
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Global Hawks are massive surveillance platforms, in operation since 2001, with a wingspan of more than 130 feet and a maximum takeoff weight of more than 16 tons, equivalent to roughly seven shipping containers of cocaine. They have a range of more than 12,000 nautical miles, can fly at strikingly high altitudes of 60,000 feet, and can stay aloft for 34 hours straight. They have no offensive capabilities; their value lies in their ability to combine range, vantage point, and persistence with powerful surveillance sensors to monitor ground or maritime activity in great detail.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
What's with the cocaine reference? A ton is a ton, whether it's cocaine or coconuts. And is the flying weight different from the takeoff weight?
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The original version had no storage compartment. The later versions had space to store 3.=,400 pounds of opium which they picked up in Balochistan and delivered to US military bases for shipment to the US and maybe Europe where prices were higher. All paid for by the US taxpayers. That drone is designed after the U2 spy plane.
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To do that w/drones would involve more than a few operators. Many, in fact.
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The missile was a Khordad III
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Without reading, lemme guess, the cia.
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