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Nice. No argument the Navy has a long and successful history with UAVs.

We here at Ft. Huachuca have been developing and training joint UAVs for a litte over 10 years, IAI and TRW have fabrication and maintenance facilities here, and we probably have the dubious distinction of being the first UAV site to create an international incident by sending a bird into Mexican airspace. The poor guy working the EOC that day earned his pay.

What's wrong with all of this is that it took a civilian, some hobbyists, and less than $1000 to put an operational UAV into service tracking illegals on the Arizona/Mexico border when it could have been done by the gub'mint many years ago.

So, is Tom Ridge really serious about stemming the tide?
Time will tell.