From: Solomon Bisrat (solomonbis@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2010 - 18:33:28 EST
I don't know how to start but I will rest on spying. In the old days during the world wars and until now in the developing world spying used to depend on people crossing enemy borders, entering enemy occupied and assessing logistical and military situations in-order to plan an attack or counter attack. The Eritrean revolution and the latest war with Woyane is a good home example to this. This activity may yield good firsthand information and clear picture but it may also cost lives of people stepping on land mines, those seen by enemy security personnel or suddenly landing on active military environment. Some may be captured, tortured and imprisoned or kept incognito for ever.
After the second world war the developed world depended more on aerial survailanse using manned flights such as NEEN (Soviet planes used during the Eritrean independence struggle) which was in-effective as it can be detected from its noise. Such gadgets also face the possibility of anti-aircraft attack resulting in loss of lives and property. Later developments introduced the drones, small, unmanned flying objects that can be ejected from the ground into the air by various mechanisms and, once afloat, can be guided and directed from the ground or from sattelites with the help of GPS. These objects fly at heights of 7,000 - 20,000 meters and may be more. Because of their small size they are difficult to detect, are small in weight and thus require less energy to keep them afloat. They can stay in space for as long as their service is needed as they can be fueled fin space. They can be equipped with electronic equipments enabling them to view selected
areas, zoom in on targets to get better picture and transmit via sattelite. It is said that such US gadgets were used to assist the Woyane during the last onslaught of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war.
I just thought some of you might be interested to read on this subject. If so you may do so using the link below. You may find more links if still interested.
http://www.vectorsite.net/twuav_03.html
Solomon B.
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