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  • T3
    Rory Paul August 26, 2011 at 9:54am

    @Paul

     

    I think that the "underside" is actually the top and I would hazard a guess and say that its part of the antenna / gps system. The paint scheme "black" on the bottom is to make it look smaller and more bird like from below.

  • Tassos Polichronopoulos August 26, 2011 at 9:41am

    hell why one of these birdies can't crash in my backyard , I need a new flir camera ;)

  • Dano August 26, 2011 at 9:26am
    Well I'll be.... I wondered where it went after losing the radio signal! ;)
  • Geoffrey L. Barrows August 26, 2011 at 8:28am

    I think if anyone here *can* recognize it, they are keeping quiet in order to keep their job...

    That said, given the wide variety of artsy drones we've seen here, I'm sure this community could make a pretty good camouflaged hobby drone!

  • Todd Hill August 26, 2011 at 8:26am

    What the guy was holding is a likely a imaging/sensory gimbal.  I think this is a puller setup.  If you look at the images more closely you can almost make out a spinner on the nose.  Bet this was a low cost build by intelligence operators within the area.  There are operatives in theatre that have the capability of putting things like this together on, at, or around the location they are to be operating in.  I have seen a number of RC fixed wing builds with this same style airframe.  Looks like it was covered in Mylar.  Disposable UAV.  No surprise. 

  • Paul Marsh August 26, 2011 at 7:36am

    There seem to be too many little things pointing away from a hoax.  For example, dihedral of outer wing panels; taped tail indicates crude repairs, i.e. it flew before; the fact that it's made to look like a bird from below, and maybe from above (I'm thinking that black is more like camouflage); control linkages; those four canisters on th bottom.  If it's a hoax, the hoaxster knew what they were doing.

  • IKE August 26, 2011 at 6:01am

    Hoax doesn't look that unlikely.

  • 100KM
    Hein du Plessis August 26, 2011 at 5:39am

    Not mine

  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer August 26, 2011 at 4:44am
    Interesting that the number 140 is on the tail.
  • Paul Marsh August 26, 2011 at 4:39am

    I wonder what's in the four ejectable(?) canisters on the underside.  It doesn't look like it carries a camera.  Could this be a disposable glider--no propeller (although it could have broken of in the crash)?

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