From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Beamish wrote:
> Job done, indeed.  Done with pocket change, too.  The cost and
> deployment numbers would get lost in the rounding.
>

Yup. & what's more they are costs that many can afford.

The nice thing though is that with the notable exception of computers &
carbon fibre, a/c design has not moved on from the 1950'es & now
finally with no man & lower costs it might.

Adam

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:10:25 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>  wrote:
>
>> BTW in the initial post I pointed out
>>
>> "The four-year Taranis project will develop a UAV with fully integrated
>> autonomous systems and low observable features."
>>
>> Note the timeframe & put that against the JSF delivery schedule etc.
>>
>> Tanker aircraft + control center (converted from a std airliner) & a
>> squadron or two of Taranis et voila job done.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam
>

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