Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario 258
First time accepted submitter slipped_bit writes "An MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down over Lake Ontario during a practice mission. The flight, being operated by the New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing in Syracuse, NY, was going well for about three hours before contact with the aircraft was lost. A search was started but had to be postponed due to weather."
Forgive My Ignorance (Score:3, Interesting)
This one only "crashed" (Score:2, Interesting)
Just an accident. And when the first drone "accidentally fires" on a US citizen... what then?
Re:Bummer (Score:4, Interesting)
I get my freshwater from there.
Considering how close that is to a nuclear power station [wikipedia.org] I think you might have bigger things to worry about than a military drone that went down in the lake.
Re:Lets have some fun picking this apart. (Score:4, Interesting)
Are you really concerned about an invasion of the US mainland that will entail MIGs? You realize the cold war ended 25 years ago right?
You also realize the cost of a drone verse the cost of an F-16 that will never be deployed? I think your complaints about tax dollars are a little skewed.
Re:Forgive My Ignorance (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Let me be the First to Say... (Score:4, Interesting)
do you know how much a cruise missile costs? $500,000 to $2 million depending on "features and optional extras"
$17 million is literally chump change to the us military i am almost surprised they wasted time looking at all.