On Dec 12, 9:34*pm, Brian Thorn wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:08:23 -0500, Jeff Findley

wrote:
This is a cool idea, but the chance of it seeing the light of day from
our incompetent Air Force in the upcoming years of drastic budgets
cuts is about nil.

Apples and oranges. *You're giving examples of programs which are
intended to become operational, but this project is clearly R&D along
the lines of X-37B. *Too bad the budget for the X-37B is classified.

Okay, but if they can't pull off the high-profile programs, what makes
you think they'll pull off a relatively low-profile program?

And they picked up X-37B from NASA, so they don't even really get
credit for *that*.

Anyway, I hope this bucks the trend.

Brian

air force knows big budgets are ending, this might give them the
incentive to do more affordable operations