The British army has been relying on Hermes 450s for surveillance in Afghanistan as it awaits the long-delayed Watchkeeper.Watchkeeper again fails to achieve Afghanistan delivery dateTired of cost and schedule overruns, the U.K. Defense Ministry is applying top-level oversight on troubled programs to force companies to cure persistent ills. Unfortunately, in one of the first test cases?the Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft program?that strategy has not panned out.