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Saturday, August 15, 2009

This Week at War: The Drones Take Over

MQ-9 ReaperThe 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.

We can see how the Air Force's drones will soon crowd out manned aircraft inside its aircraft hangars.

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