Monday, June 22, 2009

Homeland Security Drone Patrolling New York's Lake Ontario


Video of a boat on Lake Ontario captured from 19,000 feet above (John Moore, NewsWatch50)

WWTI reports:

A monitor inside an operations trailer shows a close-up view of a boat skimming across the water on Lake Ontario.

The image was taken from an unmanned aircraft more than three miles away.

A Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has been temporarily based at Fort Drum since early June in an experiment by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office.

The Department of Homeland Security is using the extensive restricted air space over Fort Drum to test whether the drone could be a good fit along this stretch of the northern border.

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