Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teledyne Ryan M-350 UAV

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 14:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Teledyne Ryan M-350 UAV

This is being listed for deletion as a part of the project to cleanup UAV-related articles. This particular article is a hoax, neither source link has any information, and the only Ghit references are to UFO and military conspiracy forums. There is no documentation that this aircraft has ever existed. Delete Akradecki 18:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: Zodiac claims to have manufactured a parachute for it. I think it might just be misnamed in the article, as a Google search for "Teledyne Ryan Model 350" returns a few other results: [1] [2] and [3] Salad Days 21:45, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Two of the three sources support the fact that this article is a hoax:
  • The first ref lists it in a footnote, and provides no information.
  • The second reference lists the 350 as the BQM-145, a basic decoy/target discussed here [4] (even has a picture)
  • The third reference, on page 58 of 59, states that the 350 is an upgraded Scarab, and old-technology decoy, hardly the high-tech secret stealth plane the article talks about. Akradecki 22:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like you're right. I wonder what the parachute company meant by it, though. Salad Days 02:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Like the Scarab that it was based on, this UAV didn't have landing gear, and the chute was the standard means of recovery. Akradecki 04:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

CommentAnd just in case anyone wonders why we don't turn this into a real article about the BQM-145, it's because we already have that info at US Battlefield UAVs (3). I thought about redirecting this to that, but the M-350 isn't search parameter people are likely to use. Akradecki 22:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: Nuclear powered stealth super-downlink carrier based unmanned attack plane? Come on, all that's missing is the flux capacitor and plasma conduits... Maury 21:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete "Stealth downlink"? According to Google, no such capability exists. If it smells like a hoax... Caknuck 19:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.