{"id":4197,"date":"2018-09-20T22:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:17:22","slug":"a-mq-9-reaper-shot-down-another-drone-with-a-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/20\/a-mq-9-reaper-shot-down-another-drone-with-a-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"A MQ-9 REAPER SHOT DOWN ANOTHER DRONE WITH A MISSILE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Popular Mechanic<\/p>\n

By Kyle Mizokami<\/p>\n

A U.S. Reaper drone shot down another with a missile, the Air Force revealed yesterday. The incident, which took place last year and involved an unmanned target drone, was the first case of a drone shooting down another another aircraft. The event ism a watershed moment in the history of aerial warfare, as unmanned aircraft begin to muscle in on air-to-air combat\u2014previously the exclusive domain of manned aircraft.<\/p>\n

Colonel Julian Cheater, commander of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, revealed the incident in an interview with Military.com. The 432nd \u201cHunters\u201d Wing is based at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada and is responsible for \u201cunmanned precision attack and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions…in support of overseas contingency operations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/aviation\/a23320374\/reaper-drone-first-unmanned-air-to-air-kill\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Popular Mechanic By Kyle Mizokami A U.S. Reaper drone shot down another with a missile, the Air Force revealed yesterday. The incident, which took place last year and involved an unmanned target drone, was the first case of a drone shooting down another another aircraft. The event ism a watershed moment in the history… Continue reading A MQ-9 REAPER SHOT DOWN ANOTHER DRONE WITH A MISSILE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}