A Word about Unmanned Aerial Systems....
Those in the business know there are inherent problems with unmanned systems. (Amazon will find out the hard way too.) When we hear about them used in combat, the media will usually report a missile took out a terrorist and that it was launched from a drone, an unmanned system. It is the proverbial problem that when you are a hammer, everything is a nail. In the world of unmanned systems, when you're a sledgehammer, everything is a huge railroad spike. There is no "in between." The media usually glosses over reports about civilian casualties when a missile is launched against a target. Duncan Hunter is no fan of unmanned systems, not because they would put him out of the terrorist killing business, but because when they're used indiscriminately innocents, women and children, get killed.
The YO-3A is everything the unmanned system is not. Better and more accurate pictures than the best high altitude optics. Think about being able to look at someone in the face rather than the top of their head. It provides more accurate intelligence. Why the YO-3A sensors can look right under the overhang, right in the window of Osama bin Laden's house when those wonderful satellites and high flying unmanned systems can only tell you what laundry is on the roof. That's the key piece of the book--when hunting the world's worst terrorists, you have to bring out the old stuff. Sometimes, the old stuff is much better than the new stuff.
The YO-3A is finesse--it can slip in and slip out of a town or a country undetected. And it is specific. When you just cannot blow up everyone you think might be a terrorist worthy of blowing up, you bring out the Yo-Yo to go in and have a "look-see." The YO-3A has the tools to take out a single problem, a single terrorist, with a single bullet. Who wouldn't want that capability? The better question is, why would the CIA director expose that unique capability? Especially when the President also has an agenda.
James Bond has little toys to escape and fight bad guys. Duncan Hunter has his manly toys to find and kill terrorists.
Maverick out!
Those in the business know there are inherent problems with unmanned systems. (Amazon will find out the hard way too.) When we hear about them used in combat, the media will usually report a missile took out a terrorist and that it was launched from a drone, an unmanned system. It is the proverbial problem that when you are a hammer, everything is a nail. In the world of unmanned systems, when you're a sledgehammer, everything is a huge railroad spike. There is no "in between." The media usually glosses over reports about civilian casualties when a missile is launched against a target. Duncan Hunter is no fan of unmanned systems, not because they would put him out of the terrorist killing business, but because when they're used indiscriminately innocents, women and children, get killed.
The YO-3A is everything the unmanned system is not. Better and more accurate pictures than the best high altitude optics. Think about being able to look at someone in the face rather than the top of their head. It provides more accurate intelligence. Why the YO-3A sensors can look right under the overhang, right in the window of Osama bin Laden's house when those wonderful satellites and high flying unmanned systems can only tell you what laundry is on the roof. That's the key piece of the book--when hunting the world's worst terrorists, you have to bring out the old stuff. Sometimes, the old stuff is much better than the new stuff.
The YO-3A is finesse--it can slip in and slip out of a town or a country undetected. And it is specific. When you just cannot blow up everyone you think might be a terrorist worthy of blowing up, you bring out the Yo-Yo to go in and have a "look-see." The YO-3A has the tools to take out a single problem, a single terrorist, with a single bullet. Who wouldn't want that capability? The better question is, why would the CIA director expose that unique capability? Especially when the President also has an agenda.
James Bond has little toys to escape and fight bad guys. Duncan Hunter has his manly toys to find and kill terrorists.
Maverick out!
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