European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. December 22, 1987 the stars and stripes drones help Navy get the picture pilotless planes retrieved with nets by Ohmi. I Siim an or. Aboard Thi Iowa n it his follow bikers sometimes Call . Cmdr. Dana n. Griffin inc Battle ship Loua s Cag a naval acronym usually refer ring la the commander air group who Heads the Fibril or a squadrons on an aircraft Carrier. Bui Ilie Only aircraft under Griffin s control Are eight Small unmanned drones that can be launched from he deck of this world War la a image battleship now sailing the arabian sea and retrieved in nets hoisted above tic ship s heavily armoured deck. For the past sear the Iowa has been experimenting with the remotely piloted vehicles or rvs which really arc Little More than Model air planes designed to carry cameras aloft for a few hours at a time Early this month when the Iowa arrived on station outside inc Strait of Hormuz to join a Battle group protecting convoys of tankers through the Iran Iraq War Rone it opened a new chapter in naval tactics by becoming the first Navy vessel to carry such robotic aircraft into an actual theater of operations. They re basically giving the ship Back the capability she had when she had spotter aircraft Griffin said. The Iowa s bal cry of nine 16-Inch guns smaller guns and Long Range cruise missiles make it perhaps the most lethal Shore bombardment vessel in inc world. The role of the pvt is to give eyes to the Behemoth by flying tar from the Iowa and spotting targets for inc big guns and determining whether the targets have been hit and destroyed. With the Kovs operating Here is no need 10 Send manned aircraft into the Teeth of anti aircraft batteries for a look around. The Roach aircraft carry cameras capable of working in Dah i or in darkness nil arc equipped to transmit the pictures live to the ship where officers control the flight behind a fool of Armor. In 198.1, when the Iowa s sister ship new Jersey was stationed off the coast of Lebanon aircraft carriers had to put planes aloft to Aid in the bombardments of druse militia units that were shelling marine1, in Lii Cir compound at the Beirut Airport. An american Pilot i. Robert Goodman was shot Down and captured Over syrian controlled Lebanon while on a bombing Mission with another Pilot who was killed. The american aircraft were attempting to bomb syrian air defense missiles which had been shooting at american reconnaissance aircraft. Military leaders contemplating How the various american forces in the persian Gulf Region might be used have been concerned about the possibility or having a Pilot fall into iranian hands the drone aircraft will help alleviate the concern just As an earlier version of inc system did for the israeli armed forces during combat with the syrians in the Bcka Valley Israel used rvs to locale air de sense Sites and attack them before i hey could be used. It was Israel hat suggested the american Navy adopt inc system and Ever since inc Navy has been testing and adapting the vehicle to make it suitable on ship. We Are doing All the development work on the rpm right Here said the Iowa s skipper. Capt. Larry .st.iquim, who has a reputation As a naval strategist. Welly nearly every Day about five Days a a Pool of journalists covering aspects of american operations in the Gulf Region on behalf of american news Pargani actions spent a few hours on the Iowa interviewing senior commanders and watching a demonstration of the ship s huge guns at work. Under rules governing the press Pool reporter Are not Given information Ahou future operations and their reports arc screened by military official Lopre vent disclosure of classified inform imn the Iowa s officers seemed ready to use the rpm system if they should move within Range forces that have been Active in attacking commercial shipping in the Southern Gulf in acc Cal weeks. We Are working out what we can do with it and what we Ean i do with it said Griffin whose Job on the ship includes writing the tactical doctrine for employing the naval weapon system. If the system is working the Captain will make use of it just As he would any other system Griffin said. In the past year several of the drones have been lost. Three engines failed one went Down in a Norm during the Iowa s passage through the Mediterranean on its Way to the arabian sea and a than had technical prob lems. The aircraft Cost about 1400.000 each and the Navy considers inc losses acceptable in an Ven Ture of this kind. The drone was put aboard even though it ii imperfect because in could be used years before More advanced systems will join the Fleet. With this system you arc really working on a Model to Ciril tin said. The ground control stations and the aircraft Are not technology. All they Are is a Means of Selling inc payload to the Santa in Bethlehem in Whit could be a Symbol of con nicking Monk and Nunu in the holy Ivind Santa Claus is juxtaposed Wilh the Kharli Boice mint s enforcement up atm in the act Cal in a of Bethlehem a series of clashes into in Arab protesters and israeli Iru Jott has threatened to curtail Christmas Celt Ralian in the town Ethert Jesus nus1 Burn. Major Klivis or in said there have Hern certain elements who Nan me la cancel Many Christmas Aulii Iliev japanese to continue whaling a Japan has decided to proceed with plans to Kilt 30fj Minke whales this year under the category of scientific whaling in a move that has been criticised As commercial whaling under a different name. Yoshikazu Kimura of the fisheries Agency said on saturday that his Agency hoped the whaling Fleet would leave for the Antarctic within the nest acc Japan agreed late last year to comply with a moratorium in commercial anal ing called by she International whaling commission. It officially ended Commer Cial Hunting for mince and sperm whales in International Waters in september. And is to Stop Numnik rival catches of sperm whales Oil in coast next March. Japan then announced in april thai it would catch 875 whales in the Antarctic Ocean this year for scientific research purposes. Conservationists in other count pcs called the move whaling under a different Kimura said the aunty decided to proceed with scientific whaling under smaller annual limit of my whales because of a recent whaling commission report that he said apprised the Saen lift whaling plans. A commission s scientific me but tuesday in to discuss per Mil for research whaling at a Conier Iisman meeting in june a major is it the 12 member countries condemned plans for scientific whaling a Japan. Iceland Anil South Korea us ing there 11 in meaningful research to be Dune b killing whales members of Trie 42-n.itiiin boys ire allowed in in re Icaria whaling fur scientific Pur Puscav according of Alk k s of the commission s treats Japan ius said scientific whaling is needed to help assess whale hip latins. M Oiler Luu Elritt during the iwas Viavin. s catch quota was a 4 Wink s
