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From: ibism!condor!kpt@uunet.UU.NET (Kevin Tyson)
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Subject: Re: Drones in Iraq?(I hope this is better.)
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Date: 13 Feb 91 22:29:04 GMT
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From: ibism!condor!kpt@uunet.UU.NET (Kevin Tyson)
|> < 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.
	
You are referring, I believe, to the Aquilla system.  The Marines however have
recently aquired a system very similar to the Israeli system.  It is a highly
stable, easy to fly model airplane outfitted with a CCD camera and RF modem.
It displays it's pictures on an STD bus 80286 using a VGA card.  Truly
designed for operation by Americans, to land this craft one presses the button
marked land, which cut's the power and causes the craft to glide to the
ground.  I think the entire system is manufactured in the US with a unit price
of approximately $5000.
	
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