Comments on: Attack Of The Model Planes. http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: probligo http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20921 probligo Wed, 10 May 2006 00:57:33 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20921 This fringes on a specific interest of mine. Suffice to say that the article, as far as it goes, is about 2 years out of date. Example - 2 years back the first privately funded and publicised UAV flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. <a href="http://tam.plannet21.com/" rel="nofollow">home site here.</a> Not bad for a bunch of old farts playing with toy airplanes! They are "amateurs". Given two watches with GPS capability (redundant backup) and feedback control systems, a lot can be achieved... This fringes on a specific interest of mine.

Suffice to say that the article, as far as it goes, is about 2 years out of date.

Example – 2 years back the first privately funded and publicised UAV flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. home site here.

Not bad for a bunch of old farts playing with toy airplanes!

They are “amateurs”. Given two watches with GPS capability (redundant backup) and feedback control systems, a lot can be achieved…

]]> By: michael reynolds http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20920 michael reynolds Wed, 10 May 2006 00:05:28 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20920 I don't think you can get to the White House or Capitol with gas trucks. Qaeda tried to knock down the Trade Center, failed, retooled and succeeded. They missed the Capitol in 2001, and I suspect they want to finish that bit of work. They have to top themselves, don't forget, they won't impress anyone if they just blow up some rail line. I think they still want New York and DC. Remotely-piloted planes would let them hit the WH directly. Incidentally, Hamas has already flown an RPV over Israeli lines. I don’t think you can get to the White House or Capitol with gas trucks. Qaeda tried to knock down the Trade Center, failed, retooled and succeeded. They missed the Capitol in 2001, and I suspect they want to finish that bit of work. They have to top themselves, don’t forget, they won’t impress anyone if they just blow up some rail line. I think they still want New York and DC. Remotely-piloted planes would let them hit the WH directly. Incidentally, Hamas has already flown an RPV over Israeli lines.

]]> By: ascap_scab http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20918 ascap_scab Tue, 09 May 2006 23:25:34 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20918 Charlie don't surf!! Osama don't Google!! What kind of idiots are you guys?? Why blow their money on some tech, which these clowns couldn't care less about, when they have plenty of willing jihadis that are a hell of a lot smarter than some fault prone gizmo. You assume these people don't want to die for the cause. When costly high tech meets massivly available low tech, low tech wins. You bozo's better watch out for hijacked gasoline tanker trucks and cell-phone detonated railroad tank cars. Charlie don’t surf!!
Osama don’t Google!!

What kind of idiots are you guys?? Why blow their money on some tech, which these clowns couldn’t care less about, when they have plenty of willing jihadis that are a hell of a lot smarter than some fault prone gizmo.

You assume these people don’t want to die for the cause. When costly high tech meets massivly available low tech, low tech wins. You bozo’s better watch out for hijacked gasoline tanker trucks and cell-phone detonated railroad tank cars.

]]> By: Bob Aman http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20893 Bob Aman Tue, 09 May 2006 04:25:45 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20893 This is rediculous, frankly. Al-Qaeda probably has the resources to get their hands on hobbyist model helicopters, not large payload-carrying drones. This is just yet another, "Oh, look! Yet another way for terrorists to strike us!" article. And there are far more effective, cheap ways of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery" rel="nofollow">dealing destruction</a> to be worried about. This is rediculous, frankly. Al-Qaeda probably has the resources to get their hands on hobbyist model helicopters, not large payload-carrying drones. This is just yet another, “Oh, look! Yet another way for terrorists to strike us!” article. And there are far more effective, cheap ways of dealing destruction to be worried about.

]]> By: reader_iam http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20887 reader_iam Tue, 09 May 2006 03:21:09 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20887 I don't see why this is an inherently silly thought (though I do see why it's damn scarey). Process control, anyone? Been around for a long, long, long time ... . I don’t see why this is an inherently silly thought (though I do see why it’s damn scarey).

Process control, anyone? Been around for a long, long, long time … .

]]> By: Phillip J. Birmingham http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20883 Phillip J. Birmingham Tue, 09 May 2006 02:57:30 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20883 I suspect that with a 110-pound warhead, you wouldn't have to degrade the GPS accuracy very much to make this essentially useless as anything other than an area-effect terror weapon. I suspect that with a 110-pound warhead, you wouldn’t have to degrade the GPS accuracy very much to make this essentially useless as anything other than an area-effect terror weapon.

]]> By: GN http://donklephant.com/2006/05/08/attack-of-the-model-planes/comment-page-1/#comment-20874 GN Tue, 09 May 2006 00:23:20 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2224#comment-20874 I'm thinking that we will come with FM Jammers of some kind , which is what most of the remotes run on. I’m thinking that we will come with FM Jammers of some kind , which is what most of the remotes run on.

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