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Luftwaffe examines secret flight drone
The business lures arms companies with unmanned flight drones, as it uses the CIA for the terrorist hunt. Now Air Force boss stieglitz visited for the first time the secret flier, with whom the European EADS wants to make the American competition.
Hamburg - strict shielded from the public presented the arms company EADS of Luftwaffe the secret forerunner model of an unmanned reconnaissance drone. After information MIRROR was allowed Air Force boss lieutenant general Klaus-Peter Stieglitz past week in the Bavarian Manching, where EADS builds the "Eurofighter" and a test site maintains the German Federal Armed Forces, which secret fliers visit named "Barracuda".
The remote controlled equipment serves for the time being the testing of new technologies and might start already in February - at a separated place on the iberischen peninsula - to the first flight. "Barracuda" is developed as reconnaissance aircraft, could be high-prepared later in addition, for the fighter plane. Model are US drones like the "Predator", a reconnaissance airplane, which is equipped with "Hellfire" rockets and used by the secret service CIA for attacks on presumed terrorists.
The EADS sees so far from the USA and Israel dominated business with unmanned aircraft as promising growth market and the project "Barracuda" therefore to a large extent financed. Swiss the defense department made a small contribution. Because the Air Force would like to replace their well 20 years old "Tornado" Aufklaerungsjets by unmanned fliers, the company hopes now for larger money gene from Berlin.
