David Axe
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Drone Comic All Wrong

Remember Northrop Grumman’s comic book promoting its line of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles? We highlighted the oeuvre last week. Now Bill Sweetman over at Ares weighs in with criticism. Noting that in the comic, pinned-down ground troops request intel from a Global Hawk, Bill writes: If you’re already within direct fire range of the enemy, you […]

blog post photoRemember Northrop Grumman's comic book promoting its line of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles? We highlighted the oeuvre last week. Now Bill Sweetman over at Ares weighs in with criticism. Noting that in the comic, pinned-down ground troops request intel from a Global Hawk, Bill writes:

If you're already within direct fire range of the enemy, you might as well pray to Buddha as call for intel from a Global Hawk. Great system, yes; geared for tactical response, no. The Fuzzy Wuzzies will have filleted you before the first email to request satellite bandwidth has been spell-checked.

Mind you, if you are within the mission radius of a ship-launched Fire Scout -- the next NG UAS to appear on the scene -- it would seem to be overkill to ask for a G-Hawk at all.

Read the whole hilarious piece here.