Iran fires on US drone

[eric]

I know what a cas plane is, and you're delusional if you think it can't shoot down a f**k drone, it may be hard, but not impossible.

And you're giving them too much credit assuming that they are thinking about anything rationally when it comes to this kind of stuff.

[Professor]

Just re-read the story. The FACTS are that 2 SU-25s fired guns at a drone in international waters and missed. That's it.

The author is making the assumption that they were scrambled to intercept. I see no facts to support this. We send fully armed aircraft into international waters off the US coast all the time.

If you fly from New Orleans to another coastal town east of there in a private plane, you have to be careful not to intrude upon a military airspace offshore. They use it for live drone shootdown exercises.

[Spider]

Please reread both mine and Prof's posts.

*Shrug*

[Spider]

[eric]

[Spider]

Nobody is that stupid though. Its like putting a bullet in a slingshot and shooting it at someone instead of using a rifle.

[eric]

They are that stupid

[Mr.Bill]

Maybe the SU-25's was all they had in the area? The Iranians were probably caught off-guard, and that's all there was.. Maybe the SU-25's were over land training and then sent over water to shoot at the drone because that's all there was available. Or the Iranians are that stupid..

Country's get caught off-guard and are asleep often.. When there was a USSR a German kid got in his plane a flew it from Germany all the way to Moscow and landed it near the Kremlin.. The Russians with all their RADAR, and cool toys never saw him until he landed..

Fvck-ups happen.

[Spider]

Oh, and it looks like that particular cannon only carries 250 rounds. So...that's 5 seconds of firing before the magazine runs dry. All they have to work with when it comes to airborn targets is basically line of sight...so they probably crossed their fingers, sprayed their 250 rounds at it, predictably missed, (since the odds of hitting anything under those conditions are zilch) and then went home.

[eric]