Saturday, August 10, 2013

Lease One Spy Plane For Just $150 Million

Airborne Multi-INT Laboratory (AML). Lockheed Martin

Rent Your Own Spy Plane For Just $150 Million -- War Is Boring

Lockheed Martin leases out aerial snoops.

It can listen in on radio broadcasts and pinpoint their origins. Using powerful cameras and infrared sensors, it can lock onto people and vehicles miles away and track them with pinpoint accuracy.

It is a modified Gulfstream business jet that once belonged to the Jack Daniels whiskey-maker. Acquired by U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin for $18 million, the 77-foot-wingspan plane now carries spy gear on behalf of government clients.

Known as the Airborne Multi-intelligence Laboratory, or AML, the aerial snoop can be rented by the year by governments too poor to own their own spy planes.

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My Comment: Only $150 million?

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