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Old 24th May 2008, 14:52
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UAV's are great, but how much do they cost?
Lots, because they have a horrendous loss ratio compared with manned aircraft on operations. Thus they have to be replaced, plus of course the risks in finding it after it has crashed and recovering items on the thing that we would rather not let fall into the hands of the wrong people...Opps what no demolition charges.

As for the £1M aircraft in question, don't look very battleworthly to me, plus can it do over FL 250??? Because in the Stan it would have to.
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