[Solson]

Stupid question time: If we use drones, how exactly will that help? If I'm the sniper, I look up in the sky, see if a drone is there, if not...I pull the trigger. If so, I keep driving.

Wouldn't camera's on all major on-ramps be more effective?

[Kip Lange]

Stupid question time: If we use drones, how exactly will that help? If I'm the sniper, I look up in the sky, see if a drone is there, if not...I pull the trigger. If so, I keep driving.

I assume that the Predators are flying at a high enough altitude so that you can't see them and tracking thermal images on the ground, as well as visual images, and keeping a visual record on a variety of cameras which it can analyze and extrapolate data from later. You can't hear it; you keep driving; you get away with one killing, probably, and then they have you, hopefully, I guess.

And I'm quite sure our military tech would be better than cameras on onramps -- I just want an explanation as to why we're going to use such expensive *war* machinery on what has still only been confirmed to us as a "civilian killing spree". Y'know? ;-) I'm trying not to tilt too far in either direction, but I'd like some words from some folk above Moose to clear this matter up. Bush's modified-limited yesterday was not what I was looking for.

--KL

[all4one]

Not if the shooters are putting mopeds or motorcycles in the back of a van or box truck and using that as a mode of excape. Another poster had hinted this mode of escape earlier in this post. They could be hiding their truck/van in adjacent storage facilities, mosques, industrial areas, etc.

[C-Note]

The perp wouldn't see the drone. They are small and fly high. Now, if he had a radar unit on his van ... {:)