Using drones: principles, tactics and results (amended title)

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1-All,Used to be Drones were targets that you practiced on. This is a remote controlled weapons system! From a 1950's systems analysis point of view ... you have a mobile launch platform, a delivery system, a guidance system and a "War Head". You want see drug dealers use it much because it has no designed "Pay-Load" capacity. But as Bill Moore points out Terrorist will really be interested it. Also the tecnology is getting cheaper all the time,not good for us.

2-carl, don't get hung up on the grenade analogy my point was that the (mystery Force of the future) wants to be able to "Put The Warhead On The Forehead." We can already do the "Big Bang".....what we need are smaller and more precise warheads.

3-davidpro,during the 1980's drug dealers in Florida tried modified R/C Aircraft for smuggling but they just couldn't haul the weight needed and at the time they still needed be controlled by line of sight (no on board cameras). The person operating the Plane had to be able to see where it was going to land, which really didn't help much. The only thing that halfway worked was when the drugs were wrapped watertight and dropped into a lake and recovered by other means, but that didn't work because they(dealers) became vulnerable to traditional LE methods. This is in contrast to subs which can carry huge loads and be offloaded at sea points to fast moving cigarette boats or simply sailed into a covered boat house or other concealed point and off loaded in a more traditional manner.

4-What Fuchs says about the tactics being a lot more than what is normaly talked has a lot of merit. This truly is 60 year old technolgy invented by the Germans in late WW2. There is a lot that is already known but itsn't being talked about as far as these weapons systems go.