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Decatur Deb11/08/2012 5:06:59 pm PST

re: #131 Killgore Trout

I googled a bit to see what kind of countermeasures those things can carry. Not much reliable info.

from wiki on AIM-92:

Operational history

An Iraqi MiG-25 shot down a Predator drone performing reconnaissance over the no fly zone in Iraq on 23 December 2002. Predators had been armed with Stingers, and were being used to “bait” Iraqi fighter planes, then run. In this incident, the Predator didn’t run, but instead fired one of the Stingers after the MiG engaged with its own missiles. The Stinger’s heat-seeker probably became “distracted” by the MiG’s missile and so missed the MiG, and the Predator was destroyed. This was the first time in history a conventional aircraft and a drone had engaged in combat.[1][2]