The US involvement in the War in Libya got about $16 million more expensive today, following the news that a MQ-8B Fire Scout drone helicopter was downed over the Libyan city of Zilten.
The drone was one of two Fire Scouts deployed by the US Navy aboard the USS Halyburton and officials say it was conducting surveillance over the city. NATO officials say they are unsure why the drone went down, saying there was no information on if it was shot or simply crashed.
Libyan state media initially claimed that the wreckage it found in Zilten was of an Apache attack helicopter, but after officials initially denied that any Apaches were lost they conceded that the drone was.
The loss of the pricey drone is likely to fuel debate over the war, particularly with President Obama claiming that the conflict doesn’t rise to the technical definition of “hostilities” last week.
Shouldn't that read USS Halliburton?
Yeah, ya can't make this stuff up! And who knows what kind of drones the USS Chevron, USS Goldman Sucs and USS JP Morgan are launching.
Good one! because I think it was originally to be Halliburton but that would have been too obvious and the mindless reactionary drones of this nation would not have appreciated a direct punch to their faces.
Good! May the lose all of them in the same way. And "surveillance drone" should be in quotes, Jason. We all know what kind of "surveillance" they were doing. The kind that yields pieces of the blown up bodies of women and children.
I hope it was shot down – maybe Pakistan and any other place being circled by these robots can follow suit
Let's hope they shoot down a lot more expensive toys and give Obama many more gray hairs defending his Libya invasion.
The Pakistanis could very well do it, but they lack the nerve. The Libyans seem more determined.
multiple theatres Rumsfield comments a decade ago, Obama is simply following a script written by PNAC and that drone is already in China spoils of wars, USA is sinking deep and china is gathering all mines and wells across continents.