Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: lhb6v@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Drones in Iraq? Message-ID: <1991Feb12.015827.11203@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 01:58:27 GMT References: <1991Feb4.063356.20176@cbnews.att.com> <1991Feb7.020420.4262@cbnews.att.com> <1991Feb9.033759.4862@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 26 Approved: military@att.att.com From: lhb6v@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard) In article <1991Feb9.033759.4862@cbnews.att.com> abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET (daniel lance herrick) writes: >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. >I doubt we are using their drones directly. I heard the Wisconsin's drone referred to as a Israeli Pioneer. For some reason, the Navy chose not to put this in their press releases. :-) It certainly looks, and sounds (buzzzzz.....) like a scaled up model airplane, and the landing system is refreshingly plain. I have a feeling that any US system would have something more elaborate than flying into a net. -- Laura Burchard lhb6v@virginia.edu lhb6v@virginia.bitnet #inc The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side is ready to face danger than accept an immediate loss. --Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War