U.S. Proposes First Unmanned Border Crossing With Mexico
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[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33680306]Sometimes I feel like we focus too much on the techno dick waving.
The customs agent is "at least 100 miles away". Fucking why?
[B]I more obvious example is the drones in Iraq. Every time they're mentioned it's brought up that the drone operators are in a comfortable room on the other end of the Earth. Why? Surely there's a closer location. Again, I feel it's "Hey guys look whatt we can do!!"[/B][/QUOTE]
"Sitting in the dark in a tiny-ass box about thirty miles away and staring at monitors for twelve hour or so," is a much more apt description.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;33682067]"Sitting in the dark in a tiny-ass box about thirty miles away and staring at monitors for twelve hour or so," is a much more apt description.[/QUOTE]
some drone operators are in the country though
its something they wake up in the morning for, and come back home in time for supper
[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;33680233]How about we reform our archaic drug and immigration laws and this sort of thing won't be a problem.[/QUOTE]
By "archaic" you mean "not even 50 years old", right?
[QUOTE=Contag;33680096]Get out of the Middle East and get into Mexico
That country is fucked, and it's on your doorstep[/QUOTE]
I just imagined an apache helicopter chasing terrorists around a desert while benny hill plays in the background.
Legalize soft drugs
Subsidize weed ranches
Create jobs
Fuck bitches
Get money
On a serious note: Let's reform our drug laws.
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;33682108]some drone operators are in the country though
its something they wake up in the morning for, and come back home in time for supper[/QUOTE]
Ye, obviously, but the most commonly deployed US drones (by a huge margin) are locally-operated Shadow and Hunter platforms. Predators and Warrior Alphas and whatnot are much more advanced aircraft, but its that very fact that makes them a much more situation situational aircraft that sees relatively limited deployment. For every satellite-operated "big" drone that goes up, with an operator sitting halfway around the world, you've got several dozen dudes in iceboxes monitoring a "baby" drone's vitals and blearily watching a blurry video feed.
There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be a UAV operator!
[editline]12th December 2011[/editline]
Um, jeez. This isn't even a thread about drones. The word "unmanned" just gets me all excited.
[QUOTE=faze;33680066]Source: [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/11/us-proposes-first-unmanne_n_1142115.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009[/url]
What a bad, bad idea.[/QUOTE]
About 90% of our border is an unmanned crossing as it is :v:
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