A Wheeling model plane company is working to build a miniature jet for the U.S. military that can be used for surveillance overseas, similar to the Predator drone.

Iron Bay is under contract with the Office of the Secretary of Defense to build and test a number of unmanned planes for various uses. They are relatively inexpensive compared to current unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, already used by the military.

Iron Bay owner John Craig said the company has built one UAV and plans to produce five more for the first phase of the contract.

The 10-foot-long plane named XTM is still in the early stages and will continue to be tweaked before it flies over the skies of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Mexican border.

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