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To: Pokey78
I'm skeptical they would have the technological know-how to build such things. Sounds like more scare tactics to me. Let's see the evidence.
200 posted on 02/24/2003 1:31:12 PM PST by jaime1959
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To: jaime1959
Not much knowledge required for the guidance. You can buy a GPS nav system commercially. The system below incorporates a GPS and the necessary servomotor controls for flaps and throttle drivers for the engine. About $5000 for a complete nav system. You could build a comparable system for terrorist purposes for a lot less. This one has a Motorola 68332 CPU. It can address 16 megs of RAM and/or flash ram plus serially-interface RAM, compasses, etc. This is the same CPU put in Palm Pilot devices these days.

Micropilot

Believe me, it's not that hard for an R/C modeler who knows computers. And you thought they looked so harmless when you saw them out flying in a park.
205 posted on 02/24/2003 1:41:14 PM PST by George W. Bush
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