US Airmen Prepare Massive $230 Million Drone for Extreme Spy Mission
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sitting at the threshold in Kandahar watching these things take off and land was amazing. The first time i saw them the pilots were talking to tower and i thought it was a normal aircraft. Astonishing.
@lostinthedesert-hp4bw The costs for a poor man in Eritrea are astonishing when he considers the number of rolls or meters of sewing thread that he could buy for one drone. It's impressive.
Молодцы, американцы!
Показывают свою мощь всему миру, и не сажают своих учёных, за госизмену, как на рашке!
The fact that is is a TH-cam video makes me think this must be old technology.
I was thinking the same thing, how could locked panels to control switches not be classified, and same for major maintenance features?
This is so cool !! ❤❤
I never realized how big those drones are. It makes sense that they would be that big, but I always see pictures of them flying. First time I have seen one next to a person.
There’s no way this capability would cost 200M+ if designed with the technology available today. Just look at what Anduril can do with their drones. The old US defense contractors have been fleecing the US taxpayer for decades.
this is old footage..... and to develop something like that 20 years ago would have cost that much. Unless your in the aviation industry I wouldn't make such an ignorant statement.
@@Ap_twsh Yeah, IDK if this person was even alive 20 years ago. But back then it was cutting edge drone tech. Also all the cameras and other systems on board are NOT cheap.
A bunch of cabbage heads debating if cauliflower is the brain of a 👽.
I was in the Army in 1995 and this "UAV" was being tested flown in missions. It had GPS, cameras, scanners, sensors, etc... It had technology that wasn't publicly available yet (GPS, etc).... so don't think the 200M was just the cost of the "plane". It included all the systems. Did you know that a single American Soldier, fully geared, costs 1 million dollars. (Equipment, training, support, technology, readiness, etc) Just our uniform from boots to gloves is about 5K.
@@soccermatrix Right and yet the equipment is still crap. Because contractors can scalp the government since it’s in most politicians best interests that contractors do well financially. There’s no way this thing should have costed 200 million. The most advanced part of these aircraft is all software and firmware, the hardware is all run of the mill.
In April 2001, an RQ-4 drone flew from the U.S.A. and landed at the RAAF base at Edinborough, South Australia - all by itself (ie. entirely autonomous, if I remember correctly).
Cheers for the info mate, I live in Adelaide south straya
thats in 2001 now we are in 2024 imagine what they do with it?
@@CCC-Vespa I would say some skynet stuff but that wouldn't even be enough.
Those downlocks look more expensive than my car.
Brov iran ...3 khordad❤❤
I was a USAF crew chief in the 70s and this reminds me of doing those same things. That was with manned aircraft.
10:02. Loving that twin-cylinder 'turboprop' engine.
Wow! as an avid life long gamer I am impressed!
Calling yourself a gamer is not something to be proud of 😂 you got balls
@MayorMcheese12 My balls happen to be bigger than yours I'm sorry your mad at that
Hard to imagine the thing getting past the first rough sketch point!
USA can’t let this drone flying in Yemen’s Sky
😂😂😂
The U.S. will lose all such drones if they get close.
Just amazing.
Less video, more content maybe. Not sure how Globalhawk went from $10m flyaway to $230m... seems rather absurd. A 787 costs this much. Its an old design. WTF?
updated electronics
No a 787 is more by a decent amount and if you use google try and see there’s a difference between 2018 prices and 2024 prices inmate 1135809 ruined the economy
Remember that a bag of revets cost $90,000.
No doubt this drone actual cost may be 10 millions, and the rest went into their pockets.
The US military is the biggest in terms of budget not because it's the best and the strongest, it's because they and the military industrial complex are scamming the tax payers and getting rich together.
Estos son los drones que han derribado los Huties?
The landing gear locks 0:53 seem over-engineered compared to those log-on-a-rope chocks! You'd think they'd also have high-tech chocks or also use axe-hewn trestles or something. I don't know, the two extremes just struck me...
Yeah, landing gear pins are a fairly simple technology. I'm betting those things are just an extremely expensive revenue enhancement for the manufacturer. All you need for chocks is something wedge-shaped that's heavy enough not to blow away.
BOY, THIS MAKES SENSE LETTING ONLY OUR WHOLE PLANET OF SPY MISSIONS WITH THIS THING???!!!
I always get a kick out of the Drone Pilots who dress up in flight suits!
😅
no kidding. i'd wear sweats and my house shoes.
It gives the same feeling when you see those pictures of cyber criminals with their balaclava on or wearing the guy fox mask.
Need beanies with propellers on top
Is this the one that Iran shot down very precisely?
Yeah, sun glasses and a cool smile are a must for every soldier there... . Only the best stuff. You couldn't bring the numbers on the table China does for example. And why (USA is a great country with many great people! I have been there, even on the old WTC and Manhattan was a blast to me in 1992!)? You make the best Fast Food in the whole world. I don't mean the Mc D. - stuff but the really good stuff. American Pizza and so on. You have the most beautiful girls and women on planet earth. You are great. Why do you always stick your nose in other countries "things"? I know that common people won't do this. i loved many of movies created in the USA. I still do. I love many series. Breaking Bad. Legendary. But also movies from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and sometimes evene newer stuff. And so many great series. North and South with Patrick Swayze, David Carradine and so many others was, is and will always be one of my all-time-favourites. So many great actors, actresses, himan beings. Just great in so many ways. As a kid I even loved your military models of aircraft mainly and would build them. Although "war machines" every boy, nearly every boy, loves american old style toys from the 80s, for example. And so many wonderful legendary music. From swing to Rock 'n' Roll, 60s music, the psychedelic stuff of the later 60s and early 70s, Hard Rock and Metal, really great rap music although I am no real fan of rap. But Grandmaster Flash, Beastie Boys, 2 Live Crew when I was 12 or 13, Guns and Roses, - I couldn't count everything I love about the USA. And that's for real.
But why do your politicians and military just relax? They don't have to solve anything in the world. It wouldn't work and you saw it many times. Please. Set signs for peace. And don't let some super-richt "elites" fool you. And what are you doing with Germany? There wouldn't be many Germans in 50 years if it goes on like this. Why is your military still here? Why? We have no "Nazi-problem". We have other problems. Financial Problems, problems with immigrants who won't behave like gentle people. And too many for such a small country like Germany. Germans are peaceful for over 70 years. No one here who is (emotionally) intelligent is a right-winger, a racist or anything like that. But we got many extremists. And who tells our politicians what to do? Why? Why don't you just let good hearted people live their lives free? Please, people. Love, Peace & Harmony. Pleace politicians. Stop those wars. Make peace. The whole human world would profit. No one would have to suffer.
No one can put money in his grave. No one can buy health, or love, or be loved. And life is too short for all the sh..t that's going on. "When will we ever learn?" Love. And I believe in more than this "human" world. I won't hate any once more in my life. I won't. And nobody has to. You, the country of opportunities, formed a new lifestyle, a free lifestyle, and you were the first ones in historic epoche. So please remember. Don't let evil rule over yourselves. You could still be idols with your power and might. You could change the world for the better, for everyone, without war. I know it never would happen and I don't matter but I would love to spend an evening talking and listening, to have a conversation with an in my opinion very intelligent caring person like today's Elon Musk, for example. Or just with loving, gentle, good, true souls not matter who you are. Best wishes.
most of usa do not want to be in any war--our leaders are corrupt as hell
isent smaller better? i feel the prices of things usa makes harmes the overall quantatiy they can achive if it was cheaper and smaller.
The Griffen MQM target drone appears to me to have a 2 cylinder internal combustion engine and not a turboprop engine in the description.
Many thanks!👍👍
☠BLACK BARON☠ 4:46 The Tech Signs on top of the V-Wings works.
I think this drone's technology is outdated so long otherwise it would never ended up in a youtube video.
Us military usually shares everything with the world.
These drones are getting bigger. This is almost a regular Airplane size lol ;)
Iran we have something like this dropped over our sea 😊😊
nothing close to this your thinking of a preditor drone which is a fraction of the cost
Brov iran😂😂❤❤❤
the future of private jet ,
buy a drone , get it redone at your convenience leave it at an airport , hire a drone pilot when you want to go somewhere
$230 million Drone. Must say the US MIC definitely has the best, most advanced, and most effective laundry service to extract tax payer dollar$ in the world
Just a beautiful bird
a day ago, the Russians shot it down over the Black Sea ...
... the Russians are a force!!
I'd do the voice over for one thousand dollars....the subtitles alone inhibit actually watching the video bruh. Just 1k dollars and mic me up!
The one that Iran hit was similar to this😂😂
With all these fancy toys America has yet to with a war 🤔
Takes off like a U2, sounds like a 737. And Edward hijacks it for a pizza run! You can have an extra piece of pie for supper if you get the reference.....PS one on display at USAF museum.
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A lot of Chinese products in U.S retail. Many big stores depend on these products. Some stores sell almost exclusively Chinese products. Hardware stores like Harbor Freight, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target. All big Name brand stores. Most Chinese products are of high quality and good value. Our countries are mutually dependent on this economic relationship. The relationship between U.S. and China have become tense. I hope we remain good friends and partners. I admire Chinese people.
"Powered by a pusher turboprop" - my arse, that's a two cylinder piston engine.
The Houties have taken them down easily.
Alguien me puede explicar porque el domo tan exagerado en el diseño de este modelo de dron, se ve asi como lomo de ballena, tendra utilidad supongo.
Там радар.
So expensive to maintain that even Germany could not maintain them (the procurement scandal was loud).
Watching these guys struggle to do simple tasks at slow rates of speed is concerning.
For 230 million $, you would think it could protect itself.
Huge Bird...amazing footage.
Watched it fly around my location a while back and it looked like parts were falling off in flight. 😮
Those are called bombs 😆🤣
@@DavidTrejo It didn't matter what I described falling from the sky just before detonation. No no they said, that was a gas explosion. OK.
Those actuators were $500000 to produce.
Probably closer to $420069
when it comes to defending america everythings expensive
Looks like the Alien from the movie Aliens
What was it Super duper extreme mission? 😅
အဲ့ဒီလိုဒရုန်း(၃)လုံးလောက်ဆိုငါတို့ရဲ့နေပြည်တော်အနေတော်ပဲကွာ၊သမ္မတကြီးဂျိုးဘိုင်ဒန်၊ခင်ဗျာ၊မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၊(နေပြည်တော်
အတွက်လက်ဆောင်ပေးလိုက်ပါဗျာ။
Lolll, Iran using their $15000 drones to take out a 30 million dollar USA drone. lol
"Stuff like this" is how the US Military is able to enforce its supremacy, the lives of US Military personnel depends on "stuff like this", "stuff like this" is an integral part of how the US Military maintains its effectiveness, seriously, your comment says more about your naivety, than anything else.
10-20 million $ is the actual cost
Сразу к Хуситам отправляйте🤣
Very nice!
Would not mind a penny for every C-130 hercules I have deiced in the early hours even sprayed ourselves to keep warm in the past
Странно, почему РФ не сбивает этот разведывательный БПЛА?
Space drones/drones in space!
We caught one near the Strait of Hormuz with a cheap SAM missile 😂
A job for a gamer. clearly
00:00 🇮🇷 iran shot this expensive drone of yours with just one missile and disabled it. Just by firing a single missile. 🤣 Missile and air defence system of Iran's indigenous production, named third Khordad (3th khordad) air defense 😂 why you show it more here
أسلحة أثبتت فشلها في كثير من العمليات الحربية
زي
Houthies are destroying this drone constantly 😂
Friggen Marines dude
W0KES
it's not 230 million, it's 230 billion
no--your wrong,very wrong
Isn't it amazing what you can do with other people's money??? ;-)
Isn't it amazing that brainfarts don't smell??? ;-)
Yeah. We're going to show everyone what we're going to spy on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh brother 🥺
What is the significance of the various colored belts? Similar as the shirts on a carrier? Have any of them been shot down?
Almost 1 trillion spent on War machine while number of sidewalk sleepers in every state keeps rising daily.
Why do the remote operators need to wear nomex fireproof flight suits?
Lipo battery explosion from remote control.👍🏼
in case things go heywire and they do especially after the tavern time on the way to work
This $230 million US Military Drone is just another day's work at the office for all of the honest, hard-working and patriotic Americans from the Military Industrial Complex. But the credits must go to those brave and honourable congressmen/women who fought their hearts out to make sure the contract is signed, sealed and delivered. America's National Security always come first.
Oh wait! Almost forgot to mention that all team members get a share of the $230 million once the costs of production are deducted.
The real-world estimate for this drone is $50 million Max.
FOREVER WARS = FOREVER BONUSES for the patriotic senators and contractors.
зачетный доубл хеад )))
This thing has been made obsolete
لا تقل انها mq9فقد دفنت في رمال اليمن😂😂😂😂
скоро эти 230 миллионов будут валяться в степях Украины
Пипец Он Огромный 😮
$230M???!! Ok.... ok... I hope it is worth it.
IRAN 2019😂
أسلحة مبالغ في فعاليتها العسكرية لإخافة الآخرين / أمريكا نمر من ورق
Iran made this drone dive into the Gulf waters 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Porque no hacen drones con Ametralladoras para eliminar los imbasores
Yemeni are taking them down
Love
Autonomous in five years ?
They were autonomous in 2001.
chouette on reinvente l'avion!
This is not the same one that Iran burned 😂😂😂
5-6 years ago iran was destroyed one of this drone over Persian gulf
$230 million dollars huh? I can think of many more things to spend that much money on and get way better results.
VAMOS PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
La gerra mundial silenciosa en eugropa crese una gerra con visiles artilleria mortero
Does it fly to Russian new borders?
Россия победит...💪😎
как?😄
🦅🇺🇸🦅
thắng trên TV truyền thông, Facebook ....
не позорься
عه علي بن محمد بن احمد بن حسن الحليسسسسسسسسسسسسسسي شيخ شمل الهندددددددد😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Towing this thing should be much simpler...All this palaver incorporated costs$$$$..Its undercarriage should equal a plane in safety ....
Not smart to be walking a missile round around without its lollipop.
Hi
When you see the price of American military equipment, divide the price by four, maybe that's the price it's worth, Everything else is the payment to all kinds of politicians and lobbyists, And the Chinese will do the same thing even more at 20 percent of the price of an American,
Snow crew. Hard at. Work. Getting all that. Snow. Off the. Runway. A. Tedious. Job.
Yemen 😂
Why are they giving instructions. Oh thanks ill check back on this when i can afford the $2.73M monthly payments with a 84 mo loan
About Mq9 in Yemen 😅