Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 18 Jan 90 01:44:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 01:43:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #439 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 439 Today's Topics: Re: NASP Recon. Drones ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Jan 90 06:02:56 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: NASP Recon. Drones In article <1990Jan16.105348.15772@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> hogg@csri.toronto.edu (John Hogg) writes: >A good question, however, is, ``What does this drone buy that Open >Skies doesn't?'' ... Continued access to reconnaissance data even if the Open Skies close again. Recent events in Eastern Europe are encouraging, but the political backing for them in a certain large country is fragile. Five minutes after an unfavorable change of leadership, the Open Skies could close with a bang. Or several bangs, depending on how many aircraft were within range of SAM batteries at the time. (The Soviet Union has the densest air defences on Earth, and is most unlikely to dismantle any of them any time soon.) Not everyone in high places in the USSR approves of Gorbachev's policies. It is folly to assume that they will automatically prevail. Hopes should not be confused with plans; hedging of bets is still in order. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #439 *******************