Is this real? Alleged drone arson footage from Liveleak.

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[–]Canbot 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This is not a drone, it is clearly a helicopter. The Chopping sound of the blades is caused by the main rotor cutting through the vortex of the tail rotor. There is clearly a huge payload of fuel on there, so this is a full size helicopter. This is most likely a helicopter built to create controlled burns to fight forest fires. Looks Chinese footage. This is likely old footage and not even in the US.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So rather than a US government conspiracy it's likely a Chinese government conspiracy to distract from all the nasty shit they are up to. We need to be wary of this stuff going forward.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, it's likely just a video of a Chinese helicopter performing an operation in China.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But muh conspiracy!

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not even the raid evidence shows anything conclusive. Just that some old guy visited some sites where fires started, which just so happens to be along a logging road. Then we have unrelated video of back burn taking place from helicopter.

[–]zyxzevn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I saw another video with the helicopter in action, can't find it now.

A drone is kind of worthless to spread fires, as they can not carry much fuel. Flamethrowers need a huge amount of fuel.