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This Is How ISIS Is Building An Airforce
Zero Hedge ^ | 8-31-2014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/30/2014 1:26:43 PM PDT by blam

Tyler Durden
08/30/2014

The Islamic State is nothing if not ambitious. Despite no record of current 'airplane' assets in their annual reports, ISIS has begun detaining and forcing Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft. According to CNN Arabic, the pilots (and their planes and helicopters) were abducted when the terrorist group gained control of Tabqa military base. It appears that if beheadings, executions, and whippings are not enough to strike fear into the hearts of the locals, then (just as America is tryiung to do), an air assault will greatly demoralize. We can only imagine how this changes Obama's strategy (and just where are all the rest of Syria and Iraq's airplanes stored?)

Via Al Arabiya,

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft, CNN Arabic reported on Saturday.

In an account reportedly associated with the militant group, ISIS said in a tweet the pilots were abducted when the group gained control over the Tabqa military airbase in Raqqa Province.

ISIS seized the airbase earlier this month. The major airfield houses warplanes, helicopters, tanks and other artillery and ammunition, which were also confiscated by ISIS, according to several media reports.

ISIS did not provide any information about the nature of the training, according to CNN Arabic.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: egypt; iran; iraq; isis; isisairforce; islam; israel; kurdistan; lebanon; russia; syria; terror
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Third world hardware maintained by inbred muzzies.
If nothing else the MTBF will be extremely short.


41 posted on 08/30/2014 4:16:42 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: al baby

The pilots only need to learn how to take off and read a map.


42 posted on 08/30/2014 4:29:18 PM PDT by bgill
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To: montag813
Where is the Malaysian 777??

In your foil hat?

43 posted on 08/30/2014 4:45:58 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: grobdriver; 2ndDivisionVet
begun detaining and forcing Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft.

And that will be the surest way to destroy their air force that I can think of.

When I got back from Vietnam, I went to a pilot training base. We had student pilots (Muzzies) from Iran, the best of the best Iran could offer. 99.9% of them could not fly airplanes to save their a$$es. The Iraqi Air Force was no match for American pilots. I doubt that ISIS pilots would fare any better.

44 posted on 08/30/2014 5:08:04 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: Falcon4.0

I love this “war-weary” crap. Unless you are currently in the military, and are not deployed, nobody has any business being “weary of war”. Lazy bastards they are, all libs. The weary can just keep putting their heads in the sand, so ISIS can chop them off more easily.


45 posted on 08/30/2014 5:13:27 PM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: blam

Just about a year ago Odumbo wanted to use America’s Air Force for the ISIS’s Air Force!


46 posted on 08/30/2014 6:42:30 PM PDT by jacob allen
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To: Uncle Miltie
Amazingly, the Indians never noticed a commercial jet going over their airspace for hours....
In your foil hat?

LOL. Don't tell me, tell Gen. McInerney. It's his theory, and an entertaining one at that.

47 posted on 08/30/2014 7:16:05 PM PDT by montag813
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To: F15Eagle

My first thought: OK, let’s say the engines and avionics work (a huge “if” on both), then they are FORCING people to train pilots, and those pilots need, say, 1000 hours on the stick to be a marginal threat.

Not worried about this in the least.

If they were really smart, they’d put a commercial drone GPS system in them, rig up someway to work the controls, and turn them into a drone with one pre-set target and a flight plan of about 3 meters off the ground just under Mach. That might work.


48 posted on 08/31/2014 7:58:33 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Jewbacca

“If they were really smart, they’d put a commercial drone GPS system in them,”

Where do you get those? Ebay?


49 posted on 08/31/2014 8:00:42 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

http://uavdronesforsale.com/


51 posted on 08/31/2014 8:22:51 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Jewbacca

LOL! You are joking, no?


52 posted on 08/31/2014 8:45:45 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: blam

Why would Syrian soldiers surrender to ISIS? It’s like the USMC surrendering to Taliban in Afghanistan.


53 posted on 08/31/2014 8:51:49 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TexasGator; Jewbacca

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54 posted on 08/31/2014 8:52:17 AM PDT by eldoradude (It doesn't matter how many it takes, the lightbulb has already been stolen.)
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To: eldoradude

I got it. The site does not list any military drone equipment! Why do you keep reposting it?


55 posted on 08/31/2014 9:28:56 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Not really, no.

You’d need some sort of hydraulic system to work the elevator and the rudder (and MAYBE the ailerons), but it is nothing a high school robotics class couldn’t do.

I could probably rig up a system with off-the-shelf parts all by myself in a couple weeks for under $10K. Have in radio controlled for takeoff, the computer for flight and destination. Doesn’t need to land.

Be a hell of a drone.

I’ve often thought Israel should bomb the shit out of of Iran using old 737s filled with HE. Take out the air defense and then send in the big boys.


56 posted on 08/31/2014 9:56:32 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmm 6 billion....I recall something about the State Dept can’t account for some funds....


57 posted on 08/31/2014 10:02:29 AM PDT by weeweed (Proud Costco University graduate)
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To: Jewbacca

“I could probably rig up a system with off-the-shelf parts all by myself in a couple weeks for under $10K.”

Your posts show that you know very little about airplanes and drones.


58 posted on 08/31/2014 11:26:48 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

LMAO.

I am not talking about something that would land. Something that fly in a remotely decent manner and would crash into a target at a high rate of speed.


59 posted on 08/31/2014 12:03:06 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: TexasGator

Here you go on the conversion of 21s to drones ... in Syria.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163576#.VANy8WNnDhE

LOL.


60 posted on 08/31/2014 12:16:05 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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