[extropy-chat] US Pilots fight in Iraq - from Las Vegas !!!!!!
Adrian Tymes
wingcat at pacbell.net
Mon Oct 4 16:25:51 UTC 2004
What, you didn't know about this? This was announced
some time ago. The era of video game wars has begun.
Now if only they could automate the ground forces,
especially the infantry, with the same degree of
effectiveness. (Among other challenges: getting a
reliable radio signal in the urban jungle, and making
the robots sufficiently aesthetically pleasing to
help with humanitarian missions and/or get citizens to
open up to them and confide about the terrorists they
just saw.)
--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this unbelievable or what ????
>
>
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1291243,00.html>
>
> October 03, 2004
>
> Pilotless strikes on Iraq by RAF
>
> ROYAL Air Force officers have joined a team of
> American pilots based
> in the desert near Las Vegas that is flying and
> firing missiles from
> unmanned Predator spy planes more than 7,000 miles
> away in Iraq,
> writes Stephen Grey.
>
> The British airmen are part of a 24-hour operation
> that controls the
> Predators remotely by satellite, secretly filming
> militants attacking
> American and British troops and using Hellfire
> air-to-ground missiles
> to destroy enemy positions.
>
> Kurt Scheible, 41, the US commander of Predator
> operations at Balad,
> said it was cheaper and more efficient to base most
> pilots far from
> the combat zone. "When I'm back in Nellis I can fly
> a mission over
> Iraq with the Predator, and then go home and take my
> children to a
> ball game," he said.
>
> ---------------
>
> Un - xxxxing - believable !!!!
>
> BillK
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