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...Pentagon took a key step toward unmanned aerial warfare in February, when a $3 million Predator drone that was initially designed for spying was able to destroy a tank by aiming and firing a Hellfire missile with help from its ground-based controller...
...drone's benefits are obvious: without people aboard, costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...Moreover, any drone capable of replicating the EP-3E mission is far down the road. After all, the Air Force only now is building Global Hawk drones at $50 million a pop to replace the venerable U-2 spy planes. The new drones, capable of loitering high over hostile terrain for more than a day, should be flying real-world missions by 2010?a full half-century after the Soviet Union shot down Francis Gary Powers...
...Pentagon took a key step toward unmanned aerial warfare in February, when a $3 million Predator drone that was initially designed for spying was able to destroy a tank by aiming and firing a Hellfire missile with help from its ground-based controller...
...where he wants to rent space and waded into the adoring crowd--his first brilliant p.r. move as a former President--Hillary Clinton was having a typical experience in her new life as a Senator. She was sitting in a sleepy Senate Budget Committee hearing, listening to four economists drone on about George W. Bush's tax-cut plan. And as Bill addressed his well-wishers--"I feel wonderful about it!" he crowed--Hillary finally got her chance to grill the witnesses. "Just give me a yes or no answer," she demanded. "Would you still favor this...