Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Texas police find $500,000 for model helicopter instead of humans

Weren't these or similar used over Cape Cod Bay near the Plymouth plant around 2003 to 2006 ? They were never admitted, but they were there, going out into position, killing most of their lights, hovering, lighting back up and flying in on shifts.

Isn't the USA bankrupt like Europe ?


The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the back of an SUV.

“We can put it over a fire, put it over ahazmat spill, put it over a house with a suspect barricaded inside and literally give the incident commander the ability to look at the entire scene with a bird’s eye view, ” Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel said.

Sheriff’s deputies will fly the ShadowHawk with nothing more than a laptop computer and a remote control similar to that used for video games.

It’s equipped with an infrared camera that can clearly read a license plate from an elevation of twelve hundred feet. The helicopter cost upwards of $300,000 and was purchased with a grant from the federal government.

Vanguard Defense Industries built the helicopter. The company has also supplied aerial assets to US forces over seas.

Critics argue the drone-like vehicleisn’t safe, because it’s unmanned.

“I gotta tell you, it sort of looks like boys and their toys, ” said Terri Burke, Executive Director of the ACLU of Texas. “We’re giving up our privacy, we’re letting the government have way too much power.”

Come on. There's someone smart enough in their radio division to have built ten of those themselves using model helicopters.

And when one gets it they all want it.

They're all just wasting America's money as they tell sick and old people to get by on the amount of money they were given three years ago.

The waste isn't the idea. The waste is the lazy, brainless, crony way it's executed.

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