Quote Originally Posted by eliteforce
That stupid hornet thing will work about as a good as a real hornet..it flys by and a 12 yr old kid bats it down and smashes it, so what did the israelis just blow-10,15,20k..thats typical papular mechanics bullshit .. other hits throughout the decades- a bridge accross the bering strait, an aircraft carrier plane (yes a massive plane that carries other smaller planes that launch from it!), hypersonic planes that easily enter the earths orbit and drop back down again..
You are looking at this from a pessimistic view...
If 100 of the Hornets are as you say swatted down by children, but 1 lonely Hornet takes out a terrorist isn't the program still a success?
Yes human ingenuity combined with necessity is the recipe we need to take out the trash.