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To: Haro_546

Cancel it and build the UAVs which can do the job in the war on terrorism. DARPA, it was reported in Aviation Week a while back, had developed an ornithopter which could be covered with feathers and made to loook like a pigeon. Want a spy who could follow Al Quadea? Pigeons are ubiquitious and could listen for intelligence. His companion could carry a munitions charge and BOOM! How many millions could be built at the cost of one X-22???


390 posted on 11/25/2004 10:06:04 PM PST by Young Werther
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To: Young Werther

I agree.


397 posted on 11/25/2004 10:10:42 PM PST by Haro_546 (Christian Zionist)
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To: Young Werther
Cancel it and build the UAVs

"The Air Force plans to procure 339 F/A-22s, and production is scheduled to run through 2013."

The government isn't going to cancel. At the most, they would curtail the number produced, but I think that is unlikely.

401 posted on 11/25/2004 10:15:39 PM PST by airborne (God bless and keep our fallen heroes.)
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