Bill Sweetman posts an extremely cool video of the Harpy-2, the latest "lethal UAV" from Israel Aerospace Industries. The Harpy-2, Sweetman explains, is a loitering missile that is capable of being guided to a strike on a moving target or can guide itself using with an anti-radar homing system. Sweetman also writes, "IAI's forecasters, by the way, have looked at "the budget footprints" of US classified programs and are convinced that the US already has jet-powered UCAVs in service, developed and deployed in the black world." Whatever Obama's plans for the defense budget and cuts to procurement, one hopes that these programs, if they do exist, will be left unmolested given how integral they will be to targeting terrorists along the Afghan-Pakistan border -- strikes that Obama has put at the center of his war on terror strategy. Here's the video of the test:
Michael Goldfarb
When Drones Attack
Bill Sweetman posts an extremely cool video of the Harpy-2, the latest "lethal UAV" from Israel Aerospace Industries. The Harpy-2, Sweetman explains, is a loitering missile that is capable of being guided to a strike on a moving target or can guide itself using with an anti-radar homing system.…
Michael Goldfarb · February 12, 2009
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