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Title: HA: Animal rights group says drone shot down
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URL Source: http://thetandd.com/animal-rights-g ... ce-11e1-afc4-001871e3ce6c.html
Published: Feb 17, 2012
Author: T & D Staff Reporter
Post Date: 2012-02-17 19:11:15 by A K A Stone
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A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday. Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying. "It didn't work; what SHARK was doing was perfectly legal," Hindi said in a news release. "Once they knew nothing was going to stop us, the shooting stopped and the cars lined up to leave." He said the animal rights group decided to send the drone up anyway. "Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out," Hindi said in the release. "As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter." He claimed the shooters were "in tree cover" and "fled the scene on small motorized vehicles." "It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway," Hindi stated in the release. He said someone from SHARK called the Colleton County Sheriff's Department, which took a report of the incident. The Colleton County Sheriff's Department filed a malicious damage to property incident report. According to the report, Hindi told the responding deputy the group's remote-controlled aircraft "was hovering over U.S. 601 when he heard a shot come from the wood line. The shot sounded to him that it was of small caliber." The incident report went on to state that "once shot, the helicopter lost lift and crash landed on the roadway of U.S. 601." The deputy noted in the report that he was unable to speak to anyone at Broxton Bridge Plantation following the incident. Hindi estimated damage to the drone at around $200 to $300. Hindi said he will seek charges against those who shot down the drone. "This was SHARK's first encounter with the Broxton Bridge Plantation, but it will certainly not be the last," Hindi said in the release. "We are already making plans for a considerably upscaled action in 2013."
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Skynet military launch is delayed Friday, 9 November 2007, 17:45 GMT The launch of the UK's Skynet 5B military communications satellite from French Guiana has been delayed. The spacecraft's Ariane rocket has developed an electronic problem in one of its solid fuel boosters and will be rolled back to an inspection shed. The flight, originally timed for Friday night, is not now expected to take place until Monday at the earliest. The £3.6bn Skynet project is designed to give British commanders access to more information, much faster. The Skynet 5B platform is set to join in orbit the 5A satellite, which was lofted successfully in March and is already handling secure traffic for UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spacecraft, which have been developed by EADS Astrium in Stevenage and Portsmouth, provide-two-and-a-half times the bandwidth capacity of their predecessors, the Skynet 4 satellites. The greater performance is necessary because military commanders are starting to use information-rich applications, such as video, in their operations. Only today, the Ministry of Defence announced it had started flying its new Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Afghanistan. The planes will gather intelligence on Taliban activities and their pictures can be fed back to the UK via Skynet 5A for further analysis, if necessary. [s/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7087910.stm] Parrot: and that was 2007 folks..... **Skynet: One In Three U.S. Warplanes is a Robot; 7,494 Drones and Counting According to a new congressional report acquired by Danger Room, drones now account for 31 percent of all military aircraft. To be fair, lots of those drones are tiny flying spies, like the Army’s Raven, that could never accommodate even the most diminutive pilot. (Specifically, the Army has 5,346 Ravens, making it the most numerous military drone by far.) But in 2005, only five percent of military aircraft were robots, a report by the Congressional Research Service notes. Barely seven years later, the military has 7,494 drones. Total number of old school, manned aircraft: 10,767 planes. A small sliver of those nearly 7,500 drones gets all of the attention. The military owns 161 Predators — the iconic flying strike drone used over Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere — and Reapers, the Predator’s bigger, better- armed brother. But even as the military’s bought a ton of drones in the past few years, the Pentagon spends much, much more money on planes with people in them. Manned aircraft still get 92 percent of the Pentagon’s aircraft procurement money. Still, since 2001, the military has spent $26 billion on drones, the report — our Document of the Day — finds.[end] [s/http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/skynet-one-in-three-u-s-warplanes-is-a- robot-7494-drones-and-counting_01122012]
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