U.S. Tests UAV To Find IEDs

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has been testing an unmanned aerial
vehicle that could identify and track roadside bombs.
The Defense Department has sponsored a project to develop a rotary-wing
UAV that could find improvised explosive devices. Officials said the UAV
could also track suspected vehicle-borne IEDs, or car bombs, used in Iraq.
"This is ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] on demand,"
Air Force Lt. Col. Gary Brooks, an officer in the Pentagon's counter-IED
program, said. "It is not being flown by the war fighter. It is flown by
computer."