BAGHDAD — In a bid to blunt American charges that Iraq had been trying to hide an undeclared drone aircraft capable of dispersing chemical or biological weapons, officials took journalists Wednesday to a military factory on the northern outskirts of Baghdad to look at the remotely controlled craft.
Built of balsa wood and duct tape, with a motorcycle engine attached, the prototype, known as RPV30A, looked like a model airplane on steroids as it sat on a concrete apron at Ibn Firnas State Co., where the air force general who runs the company and the brigadier who heads the project were on hand to answer questions.
