IAF scrambles to defend nuclear plant, shoots down balloon-UAV?

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Perhaps a camera on board or some poor high school science projects experiment gone bad

I know I've seen video of a an Iphone 4 that was sent to 160,000 ft on a weather baloon, before it popped, they were using a HD camera for video and the Iphone for the GPS tracking so they could recover it. A dad and his young kids did it for fun.

Lower the altitude, add some RC electric fan thrusters, voila, Recon drone.


Hell, If I had the time and money, I'd do that. Just not send it over my local nuke plant.

Wasn't it a "Balloon" that was found at Roswell, NM?


Christ! They started a War with E.T. now!

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by privateer

Wasn't it a "Balloon" that was found at Roswell, NM?


Christ! They started a War with E.T. now!

Ahhhhh.. no worries mate.... all we need is a macbook with a virus

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

An unmanned motorized balloon? That's...new...wonder what whoever built it was trying to achieve...

Building one unmanned balloon with an engine = 400$
Scramble a jet fighter and shoot it down = 25.000$
(estimated values....)

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Ahhhhh.. no worries mate.... all we need is a macbook with a virus

We're all set then!

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Building one unmanned balloon with an engine = 400$
Scramble a jet fighter and shoot it down = 25.000$
(estimated values....)

I'm sure there are much more damaging thing one could do with that amount of money and effort...