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MtnGoat · 08-19-2012, 17:50

Spy planes help detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan
By Tom Vanden Brook

The Pentagon has filled the skies over Afghanistan with high-tech sensors, and the effect has been measurable. From March through May, troops in vehicles found 64% of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) before they blew up, an 11 percentage-point increase over the previous quarter. Troops on foot patrol discovered 81%, a 4 percentage-point increase, according to the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).

http://www.usatoday.com/news/militar...tan/56243186/1

Funny how we spend millions while they spend thousands.

08-19-2012, 17:50	#1
MtnGoat Quiet Professional Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Asscrackistan Posts: 4,289	Spy planes help detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan Spy planes help detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan By Tom Vanden Brook The Pentagon has filled the skies over Afghanistan with high-tech sensors, and the effect has been measurable. From March through May, troops in vehicles found 64% of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) before they blew up, an 11 percentage-point increase over the previous quarter. Troops on foot patrol discovered 81%, a 4 percentage-point increase, according to the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). http://www.usatoday.com/news/militar...tan/56243186/1 Funny how we spend millions while they spend thousands. __________________ "Berg Heil" History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
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