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From: abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET (daniel lance herrick)
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Subject: Re: Drones in Iraq?
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Date: 9 Feb 91 03:37:59 GMT
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From: abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET (daniel lance herrick)

In article <1991Feb7.020420.4262@cbnews.att.com>, jmc@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
>  Are the current
> U.S. Navy drones made in Israel?  
About two years ago I saw two issues of a "controlled circulation" (means
free to qualified subscribers) magazine about defense R & D.  There was
a man with a regular column who was scathing in his comparison of the
Israeli and Pentagon approaches to remotely piloted aircraft.

He wrote that the Israelis went to a model manufacturer and bought
model airplanes with beefed up payloads at a few hundred dollars
each.  They then added a few thousand dollars worth of electronics
to have remotely piloted war plane.

On the other hand, according to this writer, the US approach was to
go to the manufacturers of current manned aircraft to get scaled
down models at a few million dollars a pop.

I doubt we are using their drones directly.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com