Thursday, May 15, 2008
From 8,000 miles away
Regardless of your position on certain things, I think you have to appreciate the technologies represented here...
This is from Brian M. Carney's article in the Wall Street Journal:
"The Marines patrolling the street below were taking fire, but did not have a clear shot at the third-story window that the sniper was shooting from. They were pinned down and called for reinforcements.
Help came from a Predator drone circling the skies 20 miles away. As the unmanned plane closed in, the infrared camera underneath its nose picked up the muzzle flashes from the window. The sniper was still firing when the Predator's 100-pound Hellfire missile came through the window and eliminated the threat.
The airman who fired that missile was 8,000 miles away,"
