Originally Posted by
BlueMoon
Security costs would be pretty high. Think of the security airlines would have to invest in at their "data center". We spend a lot of money at the airport to keep terrorists from taking over one plane. If a group of terrorists could just take over a building (( or kill the power and backups, jam or takeover the signal) and gain access to a couple hundred flying missiles, the security would have to damn near military grade.
Yeah, that would do it:
Air Force investigates mistaken transport of nuclear warheads - CNN.com
The BGOV Barometer shows Northrop’s Global Hawk and General Atomics’s Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles have had a combined 9.31 accidents for every 100,000 hours of flying.
http://snafu-solomon.blogspot.com/20...loss-rate.html
lemme see ... 16.6 million block hours in November would work out to be 1,545 and a half crashes for our civil aviation fleet, apples to apples, this month. I'm thinking the FAA is going to say, no .... but hey, that's just my opinion ... .