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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=30356" target="_blank">Eye in the sky nabs ocean polluters</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/20-environmental" target="_blank">Environmental</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-02-16 17:05:52
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Interesting that Transport Canada seems to have taken on a role normally done by Auroras. Their mandate is coastal surveillance, sovereignty patrols, security, counter-terrorism and smuggling, as well as monitoring foreign fishing fleets. Off and on rumours had been that the Air Force was looking at UAVs such as the Global Hawk, which has a 65,000ft ceiling, 12,000nm range and 35hr endurance. Put an appropriate sensor package aboard and a UAV can fill the same roles far cheaper and more effectively than crewed surveillance aircraft.