In article ,
on Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:42:41 -0500,
Bob McKellar attempted to say .....



AllanStern wrote:

CNN is reporting this morning that the US Mil is about to deploy U-2 spy
planes, JSTARS acft, and Rivet Joint RC-135s to search for bin Laden. They
claim that the US is going to maintain round-the-clock surveillance/search to
locate him. They say the acft will be controlling some RPVs in the search.

AL STERN Satellite Beach FL

It's really too bad that these kind of assets weren't available several years
ago.

Umm, they were.
JSTARS was used in Gulf War I even though it was still in the testing
phase and had not been fully approved yet.
Rivet Joint has been around forever.



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