Thursday, March 13, 2003

Iraqi drone revealed. There had been a lot of furor about a supposed drone, capable of spraying biological or chemical weapons over U.S. troops, which was discovered in Iraq recently, and which the Hans Blix didn't mention in his U.N. report, but burried in a big report. Sounded like a smoking gun, and Colin Powell presented it as being very dangerous. But here you see it on the picture. It is essentially a large model airplane, which is controlled from somebody on the ground who has it within visual range. Meaning, it wouldn't be able to move more than max 5 kilometers or so around. And it doesn't exactly have room for any fancy weapons. Another embarrassing non-story. Story here [Ming the Mechanic] 6:39:54 AM    comment []