Spy Planes

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk --- 9 days ago
The RAF has bought two Spy Planes capable of monitoring enemy troops from three miles up. ...

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- 30 days ago
Unmanned Spy Planes could soon be used to carry out covert surveillance on UK citizens, under controversial new Government plans. ...

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- 30 days ago
Unmanned Spy Planes could soon be used to carry out covert surveillance on UK citizens, under controversial new Government plans. ...

Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 30 days ago
The Government is drawing up plans to use unmanned "drone" aircraft currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to counter terrorism and aid police operations in Britain. ...

Source: mathaba.net --- 29 days ago
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Source: www.topix.com --- 26 days ago
WASHINGTON: The US Defence Department plans to spend $2.2bn on a new fleet of Spy Planes and unmanned drones for Iraq and Afghanistan that would greatly enhance the ability of US forces to track militants, ... ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 28 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to spend $2.2 billion on a new fleet of Spy Planes and unmanned drones for Iraq and Afghanistan that would greatly enhance the ability of U.S. forces to track militants, officials said on Thursday. ...

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 28 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to spend $2.2 billion (1.1 billion pounds) on a new fleet of Spy Planes and unmanned drones for Iraq and Afghanistan that would greatly enhance the ability of U.S. forces to track militants, officials said on Thursday. ...

Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 40 days ago
Crews on the RAF's ageing Nimrod Spy Planes have reported more than 300 fuel leaks in the two years since the disastrous crash which claimed 14 lives in Afghanistan in September 2006. ...

Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 34 days ago
An Attack on Iran could be Imminent — We Can’t Afford to Wait !! U.S. / CANADA out of Iraq, Afghanistan Money for human needs, not war!! Background: AN APPEAL TO ORGANIZERS AND ACTIVISTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD: The U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is hated by the people there. These wars have no support at home and are ruining the domestic economy. Instead of pulling out, the Bush administration is preparing for still another war — this time against Iran. This must be stopped! AGGRESSION TOWARDS IRAN IS ESCALATING On June 4, George Bush, with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at his side, called Iran a “threat to peace.” Two days before, acting as a proxy for the Pentagon, Israel used advanced U.S. fighter Planes to conduct massive air maneuvers, which the media called a “dress rehearsal” for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facility. Under pressure from the U.S., the European Union announced sanctions against Iran on June 23; a bill is before Congress for further U.S. sanctions on Iran and even a blockade of Iran. IRAN “THREATS” A HOAX Iran as a “nuclear threat” is as much a hoax as Bush’s claim of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq used to justify the war there. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which inspects Iran’s nuclear facilities, says it has no weapons program and is developing nuclear power for the days when its oil runs out. Even Washington’s 16 top Spy agencies issued a joint statement that said ...

Source: www.techdirt.com --- 30 days ago
Last year, we wrote about an odd use of infrared camera technology. Apparently, a city in the UK, Haringey, was sending out Spy Planes with infrared cameras to map out heat loss from every home. It then put the whole map online, so that everyone could see how much heat their homes were leaking. While perhaps a little creepy, it was kind of a neat use of the technology. What we didn't realize was that there's a secondary use of such technology as well. Apparently infrared technology from Spy Planes or helicopters is also used to detect potential marijuana growers. It seems the intersection of these two uses has caused a bit of a problem in one case. Boing Boing alerts us to the news that a woman who actually worked for the police department had her own home targeted in a drug raid (by officers who knew her) thanks to infrared imaging from a flyover that suggested she might be growing pot. Instead, it turned out she just had bad insulation. Still, the police admitted that they were going to raid the house no matter what, and if the woman hadn't been home, they would have broken in. You would think that, perhaps, a little more evidence would be needed. In the meantime, are police now going to scan the Haringey map above for more houses to raid? Permalink | Comments | Email This Story ...

Source: www.democracynow.org --- 31 days ago
Book: White House Ordered CIA to Forge Iraq Intelligence, Obama Calls for Tapping Oil Reserves, McCain Calls on Congress to Pass Energy Bill, Oil & Gas Companies Pour Money into McCain Campaign, Denver Creates "Protest Zone" for Obama Nomination Speech, Secret Service to Fly Spy Planes Over Denver During DNC, Daschle Questions FBI Anthrax Probe, Protests in South Korea Set for Bush Visit, Israeli PM Candidate Once Sought Deaths of 70 Palestinians a Day, Pentagon Opens New Intelligence Unit, In Defiance of World Court, Texas to Execute Mexican National, Report: Oil Companies Avoid Paying Billions in Royalties, FBI Probes Firebombings of UC Santa Cruz Researchers, Nader Wins California Peace and Freedom Nomination ...

Source: www.greenbang.com --- 11 days ago
Those smart pants at Qinetiq are behind this - a solar-powered Spy plane that has stayed in the sky for 82 hours. Imagine if we could sort the carbon trouble around plane flights - guilt-free holidays. Unfortunately, these Spy Planes are generally light-weight, carbon fiber jobbies. Not hulking great air buses with 300 people on board, plus [...] ...

Source: www.dailykos.com --- 30 days ago
George Bush and George Tenet both deny the allegation leveled by Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World , that in late 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and circulate a letter that would seem to justify the invasion of Iraq after the fact. Here is WH deputy press secretary Tony Fratto : "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify..." Bush has a long record of dishonesty, and Tenet's memoirs were not exactly a model of candor . There's no reason to give weight to either man's denials. Suskind has a record of credibility, and his account is partly backed up by Sir Richard Dearlove . But that doesn't mean Suskind's allegation about a forged letter, which depends on the word of two former CIA agents (Rob Richer and John Maguire), is necessarily credible. Do we have any independent means to assess its likelihood? The best we can do is to examine known patterns to see if they tend to fit with the forgery allegation. Here are several. Is there other evidence of the WH endorsing public deception to make a case for war? Check. In a Jan. 31, 2003 WH meeting Bush proposed to Tony Blair that, absent any actual justification for war, the US should paint one of our Spy Planes in UN colors and provoke Iraq to shoot it down. Enough said. Suskind's sources allege that the author of the forged letter, the director of Iraqi intelligence,  Tahir Jal ...

Source: www.jewcy.com --- 14 days ago
Author: tahlraz Posted to Jewcy: August 20, 2008 11:47 am =====   Noah Shachtman, editor of Wired's blog on national security, and in my mind one of the best reporters on that beat, has a great post on how Israel's military connection to Georgia is fueling increasing discord between Israel and Russia: The Russian military blasted Israel today for supplying weapons and training to its adversaries in Georgia. "Israel armed the Georgian army," Russian Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a Moscow press conference. Jerusalem provided Tblisi with "eight types of military vehicles, explosives, landmines and special explosives for the clearing minefields [sic]. " "In 2007, Israeli experts trained Georgian commandos," he added. Georgia's Deputy Defense Minister Batu Kutelia previously said that "Georgian corporals and sergeants train with Germans, alpine units and the navy work with French instructors, and special operations and urban warfare troops are taught by Israelis." Tensions between Georgia and Russia ratcheted up the spring, after Russia and her allies in the breakaway region of Abkhazia shot down a number of Georgian Spy drones. Those unmanned Hermes 450 reconnaissance Planes were made by Israel's Elbit Systems. The two countries have been doing military hardware deals for almost seven years, "following an initiative by Georgian citizens who immigrated to Israel and became businesspeople," Ynetnews notes. "The f ...

Source: www.defence.pk --- 54 days ago
US Spy Planes continue to violate Pak airspace (http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15960) Sunday, July 13, 2008 PESHAWAR: Despite a... ...

Source: tech.groups.yahoo.com --- 29 days ago
Vision 2015: Consolidation of U.S. Intelligence Into Global Intel Network http://www.infowars.com/?p=3793 Unmanned Spy Planes to police Britain - Home News, UK ...

Source: www.environment.co.za --- 9 days ago
Written by Ariel Schwartz Published on August 25th, 2008 Source: http://cleantechnica.com/ DailyTech reports that defense firm QinetQ has set the unofficial world record for the longest continuous unmanned flight with the Zephyr, a British-built Spy plane. The Zephyr stayed in the air for 82 hours and 37 minutes, besting the previous record of 30 hours and 24 minutes held by Northrup Grumman’s Global Hawk. The plane, which can be launched by hand, has a carbon fiber skeleton that weighs under 70 lbs and an 18m wingspan covered with silicon solar cells. It is powered by a lithium sulfur rechargeable battery that is twice as efficient as any other battery in the world. Despite the Zephyr’s record-smashing speed, it will not set any official world records. According to the World Air Sports Federation, the plane’s flight did not fulfill the requirements of a world record attempt since it was performed to test the Zephyr’s ability to relay ground radio messages. But that doesn’t mean the test flight was for naught. The Zephyr’s designers believe that the plane could potentially fly continuously for weeks or months, and the technology has countless military uses. Even more exciting, the Zephyr’s exhibition of solar energy used in flight opens up the possibility of manned solar-powered Planes—a development that would revolutionize the aircraft industry. Source: http://cleantechnica.com/ ...