L'acrobat wrote in message ...
http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...19%5E%5Enbv%5E
15306,00.html

ASYLUM-seekers and illegal fishing vessels are the targets of a likely $150
million investment in the Global Hawk pilotless spy plane.

Global Hawk has been slotted into the Defence Department's Project Air 7000
plan as a partial replacement for the Air Force's AP-3C Orion.
Officially classified as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Global Hawk can
stay airborne for 36 hours, scanning an area the size of Tasmania in 24
hours.

Eh? Taswegia? Taswegia = approx 26k sq miles
(www.goway.com/downunder/australia/tasmania/) however the Global Hawk is
supposed to be able to scan 40k sq miles in 24 hours
.............(http://www.fas.org/irp/program/colle...026_991973.htm )