U.S. Vigilantes Test Drones on Mexican Border

WashingtonPost.com ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2003; 7:40 PM | Deborah Tedford

[Reagan is King]

I noticed there's a funny response to the author of this article by Glenn Spencer on the front page at www.americanpatrol.com:

"GLENN SPENCER TO REUTERS: The day you fire Deborah Tedford is the day I grant another interview to Reuters."

Border Hawk Now a Vigilante* Reuters Says ABP Takes Law Into Its Own Hands

[The Coopster]

No, you wake the F up. Go read the rules for posting here as it pertains to violence. That was my one and only point to you, and my only problem with you, other than the fact that you apparently get off by being rude.

Good night, and good luck. At your rate, you'll be suspended before long, anyway.

[madfly]

Your lack of manners combined with your misinformation equals a complete waste of bandwidth!

[madfly]

Well this woman you've been so rude to works in a hospital in Tucson, where they bring these aliens, some whose lives were not saved by the high temperature of the water they drank. Spend a day in the ER in mid-July.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Heat stroke is a very real danger in Arizona. There is no appreciable humidity; sweat evaporates instantaneously and you don't even notice how much you're losing.

Ever walk across hot beach sand? That's a pleasure compared to walking barefoot on open ground in the Arizona desert. One minute will blister you through the hardest callouses and leave you unable to walk. I found out the hard way.

Ground temperature can easily reach 150. Same with water in a sealed container. Push body temperature beyond 107, especially when already depleted of water and electrolytes, and you're meat.

[thepitts]

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[MississippiMan]

anyone have a sign on for Wash Post?? Or can the poster post the story instead of excerpt??

All you have to do is enter a birth year and zipcode.

MM

[Tancredo Fan]

All of this pretty much begs the question: If American Border Patrol can put together the technology to actually enable the Border Patrol to bag these loathsome invaders by the thousands on the cheap, why haven't the inept feds done it? Why didn't they do it 15 years ago? The cheap labor pimps in D.C. must be burning the midnight oil trying to come up with excuses to cover up their blatant malfeasance. Their treachery has been exposed in spades. This goes all the way to the top.

[DLfromthedesert]

WRONG; do you know how hot it gets? Part of rehydration is cooling; because increased temp increases metabolism anduses up the body's stores. That includes water. That's why children should never go into hot-water spas; they get dehydrated more easily because a greaterpercentage of their bodies are fluid.

[DLfromthedesert]

There is a solution, but the politicians don't have the guts to do what is right, and it is appalling.

I had no intention of making that jerk's day.

[DLfromthedesert]

There is a solution, but the politicians don't have the guts to do what is right, and it is appalling.

I had no intention of making that jerk's day.

[DLfromthedesert]

There is a solution, but the politicians don't have the guts to do what is right, and it is appalling.

I had no intention of making that jerk's day.

[DLfromthedesert]

There is a solution, but the politicians don't have the guts to do what is right, and it is appalling.

I had no intention of making that jerk's day.

[DLfromthedesert]

YIKES!!! The system hiccuped; I did NOT post 4 times!!!

[JackelopeBreeder]

UAV technology, just the flight part of it, only matured about six years ago. Predator was the first really successful one. I worked on the Hunter project in the mid-90s and they had so many problems we renamed them Lawn Darts. (They finally matured and did great things in Kosovo and Iraq.)

Border Hawk is not so much a design breakthrough; it's an example of several extremely bright guys (not me, I was busy on other things) leveraging the latest advances in electronics, communications and miniaturization. A lot of the components used in this bird were not available a couple of years ago.

It does not have the added weight and complexity of milspec ruggedization. It costs only a tiny fraction of a Hunter or Predator. If we crash one, the bird is easily repaired or replaced.