Ken felt we could beat those. He wanted some idea of what impact that might have on the threats. So I got the job of putting together a program. We called it the mini-RPV survivability test program, MRSTP. That was a small [aircraft] McDonnell Douglas built out at Long Beach. And the program was called Aquila where they built an RPV that went long distances, but had relatively low cross section. The bird we built looked nothing like that, but they already had a proven expertise along
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with, at that time, TRW, [which] was running one. So we went to both McDonnell Douglas and TRW and said, "Build us a low observable or a low RCS RPV." TRW failed to step up to it and said, "There's no way we can build one." McDonnell Douglas said, "We'll build you one. We'll fly it." We took it to Florida, to Eglin at a place called Cape San Bias. Cape San Bias is a spit down there were they've got an FPS-16 tracking radar where they tracked all of the drone tests out over the Gulf that they used to do. Eglin flew the drones out of Tyndall and they'd shoot at them with Bomarc and other kinds of missiles. If the drone didn't get killed and was able to come back, they'd bring it back and land it. But they had a good tracking system out there and it's very isolated. We flew against a variety of radars, AAA gun systems and missile systems.
We did really well. I mean really well to the extent that nothing had any success with it and we weren't real low. So that was the one test that Ken needed to go further with the next step; to say, if we could get this down to here, here's the impact.