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Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots
An anonymous reader writes "As President Obama meets with advisors on an Afghanistan strategy today (who are now leaning more toward Joe Biden's more-drones policy), and even as Al Qaeda claims it's not all that scared of drones, the new issue of Esquire takes the first real in-depth look at the American military's UAV build-up. Defense geek Brian Mockenhaupt spends some time on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as back at the Pentagon, where the pilots ('more like snipers than fighter pilots') are playing a kind of role-playing game, getting to know terrorists' daily ins and outs. Looks like these Reaper drones are the real wave of the future, eh?"
Exactly so. Americans dont seem to mind killing or abusing people as long as its not their own ones. USA is still the only country that has used nuclear weapons against other nation, and while on that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Wow, thanks for this post, reminds me of what kind of opinionated dumbasses this website attracts. You obviously don't know the first thing about what you're talking about. Believe it or not, there's more to these planes than sticking a webcam onto a tiny RC plane, and they're actually cheap.
At $10.9m, I'd rather see them going cheaper, and deploying more.
Dumbass, the reason why we're not deploying more isn't money, it's a lack of pilots. You would know that if you had RTFA. STFU and RTFA, sucker.
You just got troll'd!