+allenjb42 Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7946758.stm Here's a google image search about the drone in question, the Ababil 3: http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid...l=en&tab=wi Quote
+MigBuster Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) Aww they shot down their remote control plane!! Look at some of those pics - did they just buy them off the Internet?? Edited March 16, 2009 by MigBuster Quote
Jeremiah Weed Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 The reason it took 10 minutes to shoot down... they had to wait for it to no longer be over something it would cause collateral damage to when it fell out of the sky. It was an a2a kill too. Quote
+ST0RM Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 The queston now is what shot it down? A Viper? Quote
Jeremiah Weed Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 The queston now is what shot it down? A Viper? Give me some minutes and I can tell you the callsign But if I had to guess, I'd say yes, I just want to know, FOX 2 or GUNS Quote
thundercheif Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 why spend a missile to shoot down this? Might be a little hard to hit such a small target with guns Quote
Jeremiah Weed Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 why spend a missile to shoot down this? Because you can... In November 2001 I called in a 2000 pound JDAM in on a machine gun position, I didn't have to, but it was awesome. Quote
+MigBuster Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 why spend a missile to shoot down this? Dunno may be safer to use a missile than to slow down and hit a tiny target with guns - be interesting to know what missile they used if they did. Quote
+MigBuster Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 I Remember Isreal shooting down an Iranian made Hazbollah UAV with a Python on 2006 - if that was ever confirmed. Of course we know the Russians use missiles on UAVs - that is almost certain lol And the Iraqi air force finally got a kill before 2003 using a missile against a UAV - also on film! Quote
Lt. James Cater Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 Because you can... In November 2001 I called in a 2000 pound JDAM in on a machine gun position, I didn't have to, but it was awesome. Oh Hell Yeah!!!!! Quote
+76.IAP-Blackbird Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 Called in the army to buy me a newspaper last sonday :-P interesting link about Iranian copy industry http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=17564&PN=1 Quote
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