19.08.2009, 17:51
Zitat:This Week at War: The Drones Take Over
What the four-stars are reading -- a weekly column from Small Wars Journal
Drones are taking over the U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force will reach a milestone this year: For the first time it will train more pilots for unmanned aircraft than for manned aircraft. A decade ago, unmanned aircraft were hardly known. Now they dominate the Air Force's pilot training system, and it is very unlikely this trend will ever reverse. In fact, it is not hard to imagine that within another decade unmanned aircraft operations will dominate day-to-day Air Force operations, force planning decisions, and budgets.
Quelle:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/20...fghanistan
Interessant sind auch die wohl relativ verläßichen Preisangaben im Artikel für Reaperdrohnen und die F-35, sowohl der Link zu dem US-Regierungsreport.