On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:19:37 -0400, "Andrew Chaplin"
wrote:

"Mike" wrote in message
...
Thirteenth Report The contribution of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to
ISTAR capability
http://www.publications.parliament.u...ce/535/535.pdf

PHOENIX UNABLE TO OPERATE DUE HEAT IN IRAQ
THE PHOENIX UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE , WHICH COST AN ESTIMATED 300,000
POUNDS EACH AND WAS BROUGHT INTO SERVICE WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1998
AFTER A PROTRACTED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IS NOW OFFICIALLY DEAD, THIS
WAS PUBLISHED IN UK DAILY.
MPS ON THE COMMONS DEFENSE COMMITTEE REVEALED IN A REPORT PUBLISHED
LAST WEEK THAT THE PHOENIX , WHICH PROVIDED TARGET INFORMATION FOR THE
ARMYS ARTILLERY REGIMENTS FROM AN OPERATING HEIGHT OF ABOUT 9,000FT,
WAS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE HEAT IN IRAQ WHEN IT WAS DEPLOYED IN 2003.

So, Phoenix went down in flames as opposed to going up in them?

[Mike, don't shout.]

Why didn't they just rename the thing Icarus and carry on? That's
what the Yanks would have done.


Peter Skelton