Flight Of The Drones: Why The Future Of Air Power Belongs To Unmanned Systems -- The Economist
ON SEPTEMBER 30th Anwar al-Awlaki and several of his al-Qaeda colleagues stopped their pickup truck on a remote, dusty road deep inside Yemen's interior. He can have had only a split second to realise what was about to happen. But the missile strike that killed al-Qaeda's most effective propagandist was no real surprise. It was just the latest example of the way America's armed Predator and Reaper drones are changing the terms of combat with the country's enemies, leaving them able to run but with nowhere to hide.
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My Comment: While the above graph projects continued US dominance in drone numbers .... what it ignores is the quality and effectiveness of these drones .... a factor that I suspect the US is year [...]
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