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From: cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis A. Conkey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Drones in Iraq?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.015930.11267@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 01:59:30 GMT
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From: cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis A. Conkey)

in article <1991Feb9.033759.4862@cbnews.att.com<, abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET (daniel lance herrick) says:
 
< 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 remember seeing a TV (PBS??) show some years back that related the
same experience. The Israelis developed a real basic aircraft at
nominal cost while the US spent 10's of millions of dollars trying
to develop a Cadillac version. From the report they weren't having much
luck.

Curtis