"Ralph Jones" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:19:51 +0100, "Alistair Wright"
wrote:
Before you can shoot it down you have to SEE it. If it's made of
fiberglass, forget seeing it on radar, and once it gets in close, gets
its pictures and transmits them, who cares if it's shot down? You're
already busted. The next object overhead will be coming in very fast,
with a load of explosives aboard.

You don't have to see it visually. The telemetry transmissions from its
imaging kit will give you plenty of information about its position. It all
depends on how sophisticated your opposition is. A bunch of Talebans
probably wouldn't see this thing, or know about it till the big bang, but
an enemy with decent scanning gear could both see it, and turn it around,
and send it right home. I worked on a project like this for DoD twenty years
ago. I think they may just have got it to work by now.

Must be a hairy experience to ride in a plane being flown on RC by some guy
on the ground!!

Alistair W