Foreign Correspondence

[sarals]

Despite the billions of dollars paid for these high tech weapons, they don't always perform as advertised. I recently heard on the radio that the Patriot missle was used 12 times during the Iraq war. It hit 12 targets, sadly three of the 12 were friendly aircraft. The problem has been known for over 10 years and was not fixed... gee, it might have cut into profits :(

As for picking up the pilots, they find them via sattelite... this I know from a friend of mine that use to work on sattelites at an aerospace company.

[edit] it's alot like software... they ship things with known flaws with the attitude they'll fix it later... but too often it never gets fixed... but all they care about is making the sale