Tankers Attacked In Gulf: Price of Oil Up

[Rasputin_Vol]

That can be faked.....


And you know it.

Exactly. All we have right now is a bunch of he said/she said.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

And by the way... something that has kind of been glossed over in here or ignored, but that drone was nearly a quarter billion dollar piece of equipment that was shot down out of the sky by the Iranians. What kind of vaporware are our tax dollars paying for in our weapons and reconnaissance systems?

 

[tennvols77]

And by the way... something that has kind of been glossed over in here or ignored, but that drone was nearly a quarter billion dollar piece of equipment that was shot down out of the sky by the Iranians. What kind of vaporware are our tax dollars paying for in our weapons and reconnaissance systems?

Yeah, that seems a bit way too exorbitant for a drone. Must have had some nice toys on it, or, like the government does, spend 4 billion on a website that doesn't work when you could have done it for less than 20 million.

2018 budget on drones: $6.97 billion for drone related procurement, R&D, and system specific construction.

Unit cost of a drone in 2010 was just over 4million.

"A Global Hawk has a unit cost of roughly $123 million, while an F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter costs only $89 million." "Reaper drone, a roughly $15 million drone "

Iran just shot down one of the US military's most advanced drones — it costs more than an F-35 stealth fighter

That's some expensive toys.

 

[Orangeburst]

Just for you...

Iran Says US Drone Came Down Full 4 Miles Inside Its Territory

Maybe it crashed in Iranian territory. At 25-65k altitude it could of flown several miles before impact. SAM warheads are not big and do not result in a fireball. For all we know it just took out a control surface and the plane was just out of control. Even in a totally destructive hit the debris would land several miles down range with a speed up to 400 mph.

 

[Velo Vol]

Oh.

 

[carlos86]

Just for you...

Iran Says US Drone Came Down Full 4 Miles Inside Its Territory

Your source is Zerohedge whose source is Iranian state media.

 

[carlos86]

Yeah, that seems a bit way too exorbitant for a drone. Must have had some nice toys on it, or, like the government does, spend 4 billion on a website that doesn't work when you could have done it for less than 20 million.

2018 budget on drones: $6.97 billion for drone related procurement, R&D, and system specific construction.

Unit cost of a drone in 2010 was just over 4million.

"A Global Hawk has a unit cost of roughly $123 million, while an F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter costs only $89 million." "Reaper drone, a roughly $15 million drone "

Iran just shot down one of the US military's most advanced drones — it costs more than an F-35 stealth fighter

That's some expensive toys.

The global hawk is basically a U-2 but way better that can stay on target for up to 32 hours.

 

[tennvols77]

The global hawk is basically a U-2 but way better that can stay on target for up to 32 hours.

Expensive toy. More than a fighter which is hard to understand, but, weeee military budget.

 

[BearCat204]

Expensive toy. More than a fighter which is hard to understand, but, weeee military budget.

Anytime you take the chance of an American pilot or driver being injured or killed out of the equation, that = a ****load of money.

 

[tennvols77]

You two are from the military, how many cool and unbelievable toys do we not even know about? Can't begin to imagine what we have done in the last 10 years let alone what's coming down the pipeline.

 

[BearCat204]

You two are from the military, how many cool and unbelievable toys do we not even know about? Can't begin to imagine what we have done in the last 10 years let alone what's coming down the pipeline.

Lot's of cool ****, but with growing and growing price tags.

 

[carlos86]

You two are from the military, how many cool and unbelievable toys do we not even know about? Can't begin to imagine what we have done in the last 10 years let alone what's coming down the pipeline.

Every time the enemy or rival country adopts, create a new weapon system or changes tactics, we must do the same. I’ve seen some cool stuff over the last few years.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

I am waiting to see a city scale EMP weapon used, lasers on aircraft instead of huge ships, and rail guns deployed in a meaningful large scale way. I hope we never stopped working on EMP weapons. Pretty much everything our enemies use is worthless after one " pulses". I watched video of 1 mounted on a humvee or something that could fry a vehicle at a pretty good distance...those could take out aircraft, missiles, ICBMs, tanks ships power grids radio and cell towers you name it...

 

[carlos86]

F-22s deployed to the Gulf.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

F-22s deployed to the Gulf.

I'm pretty sure they have been in the area (Saudi Arabia, UAE) for a while maybe they have just been deployed to Qatar for the first time.

 

[Hayezb]

I'm pretty sure they have been in the area (Saudi Arabia, UAE) for a while maybe they have just been deployed to Qatar for the first time.

That is what it says...

 

[Matt2496]

I am waiting to see a city scale EMP weapon used, lasers on aircraft instead of huge ships, and rail guns deployed in a meaningful large scale way. I hope we never stopped working on EMP weapons. Pretty much everything our enemies use is worthless after one " pulses". I watched video of 1 mounted on a humvee or something that could fry a vehicle at a pretty good distance...those could take out aircraft, missiles, ICBMs, tanks ships power grids radio and cell towers you name it...

I hope a weapon like that is never used in my lifetime.

 

[carlos86]

I'm pretty sure they have been in the area (Saudi Arabia, UAE) for a while maybe they have just been deployed to Qatar for the first time.

Our forces don’t operate out of Saudi Arabia anymore. But the 22s were in Qatar and we’re replaced awhile by by F-35s.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Air Force F-22 Raptors arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on June 27 to defend American forces and interests in U.S. Central Command. (Tech. Sgt. Nichelle Anderson/Air Force)

 

[85SugarVol]

Yeah, that seems a bit way too exorbitant for a drone. Must have had some nice toys on it, or, like the government does, spend 4 billion on a website that doesn't work when you could have done it for less than 20 million.

2018 budget on drones: $6.97 billion for drone related procurement, R&D, and system specific construction.

Unit cost of a drone in 2010 was just over 4million.

"A Global Hawk has a unit cost of roughly $123 million, while an F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter costs only $89 million." "Reaper drone, a roughly $15 million drone "

Iran just shot down one of the US military's most advanced drones — it costs more than an F-35 stealth fighter

That's some expensive toys.

The Global Hawk is a huge aircraft. It’s just unmanned.

Not your typical “drone”...

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Yeah, that seems a bit way too exorbitant for a drone. Must have had some nice toys on it, or, like the government does, spend 4 billion on a website that doesn't work when you could have done it for less than 20 million.

2018 budget on drones: $6.97 billion for drone related procurement, R&D, and system specific construction.

Unit cost of a drone in 2010 was just over 4million.

"A Global Hawk has a unit cost of roughly $123 million, while an F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter costs only $89 million." "Reaper drone, a roughly $15 million drone "

Iran just shot down one of the US military's most advanced drones — it costs more than an F-35 stealth fighter

That's some expensive toys.

The Global Hawk isn't your standard drone its bigger than Cessna.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

The Global Hawk is a huge aircraft. It’s just unmanned.

Not your typical “drone”...

No matter, I think the point is that a quarter billion dollar piece of equipment was knocked out of the sky by modest (modest in contemporary terms) weaponry in the hands of the Iranians.

 

[GreyWolf1129]

No matter, I think the point is that a quarter billion dollar piece of equipment was knocked out of the sky by modest (modest in contemporary terms) weaponry in the hands of the Iranians.

Kinda like TWA800? And yes, I believe it was shot down. Not by the U.S.

 

[n_huffhines]

"Death to Iran"

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

"Death to Iran"

So basically, not only have we been meddling in Iranian politics for the last 70 years, but we've also stood by as Iraq was allowed use chemical weapons on Iranian forces.