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Friday, February 21, 2014

U-2 Vs. Global Hawk: Why Drones Aren't The Answer To Every Military Need

U-2 Dragon Lady & RQ-4 Global HawkEarlier this month, four of Washington’s most respected public-policy “think tanks” offered their views on how the U.S. military posture should be organized.

They differed on many issues, but one place where they all agreed was on the desirability of retiring the venerable U-2 spy plane in favor of an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft called Global Hawk.

The think tanks thus sided with the fashionable consensus that the future of warfare belongs to drones rather than manned aircraft.

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