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2010-04-27 India-Pakistan

CIA using smaller missiles in drone attacks

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Lighter/smaller missiles means they can carry more of them, too!

Posted by gorb 2010-04-27 00:17|| 2010-04-27 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 My question is, why does the CIA need ANY missiles. Follow on...why do we need TWO Air Forces? .......$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ oh, sorry, reality slipped my mind.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-27 07:58|| 2010-04-27 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't mind the duplication, Besoeker. Given the natural tendency of organizations of all kinds to go off the rails, I think it's valuable to have a covert ops group at the CIA and also to have SOCOMM. And most of the equipment development is dual use.

Posted by lotp 2010-04-27 09:41|| 2010-04-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The projectile, which was no bigger than a violin case and weighed about 35 pounds

Raytheon Griffin
The Griffin missile was developed by Raytheon as a private venture in the 2007/2008 time frame. It is a small tube-launched laser-guided air-to-surface weapon primarily designed as armament for UAVs. An MQ-1 Predator can carry three Griffin missiles in place of a single AGM-114 Hellfire

Posted by ed 2010-04-27 12:18|| 2010-04-27 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 An MQ-1 Predator can carry three Griffin missiles in place of a single AGM-114 Hellfire

More missiles equals more targets. Happy hunting, O CIA and Air Force angels of death!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-27 17:20|| 2010-04-27 17:20|| Front Page Top

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