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              George Bush’s Personal Spy Drone
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 By Sharon Weinberger DARPA, the Pentagon’s far-side research agency, has a plan to send a robotic surveillance drone anywhere in the world within an hour. And it is apparently intended for one particular user: The President of the United States. Space News reports on this “Rapid Eye” unmanned aerial vehicle project:
Sounds interesting. Now, I’m hoping there’s an obvious answer to this question: How will Russia’s early warning system know — prior to reentry — that the zillion-mile-per-hour projectile is carrying a drone, and not, say, a nuclear warhead? This is the debate that’s tangled up in any number of the Pentagon’s so-called “Global Strike” projects. There have been various schemes for a conventional version of either a land- or submarine-launched ballistic missile — both ideas that Congress has been reluctant to fund. The benefit is clear: The Pentagon would like to be anywhere in the world within an hour, and it seems the only way to do this is with something that looks like a ballistic missile. Rapid Eye is somewhat different, of course, because it’s supposed to drop a surveillance platform somewhere, and not a weapon. In any case, putting things on ICBMs is an idea that just doesn’t seem to go away. The essential problem is that you have to convince Russia that the thing on the missile is not a nuke, and calling it “Drone One” might not be enough. Have Your Say: George Bush’s Personal Spy Drone Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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The idea is to give the U.S. president a first, quick look at the scene, DARPA Director 
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