[hchutch]

I just don't buy this UAV story. Unless they had riugged some rocket motors to launch a L-39 froma merchie, I just don't see them as having the capability to do that.

OTOH, a business jet like the Gulfstream or that long-range one from Bombardier would be a nice option...

[livius]

The Palestinians launched one of these over Israeli territory just last week. It wasn't loaded with anything and was obviously a practice run.

Strangely enough, it blew up when the Hamas members ran out to pick it up. Five of them were killed, and the plane was destroyed, but you can see from this that the idea (and the technology) is out there in the world of Islamic/Saddamic mass psychosis.