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Demand For Unmanned Aircraft Outstripping Their Capabilities
coondoggie writes "Has the highly successful but disparate unmanned aircraft strategy deployed by the military outstripped the Department of Defense's ability to handle its growth? The Air Force, Army, and Navy have requested approximately $6.1 billion in fiscal year 2010 for new systems and expanded capabilities. The Pentagon's fiscal year 2010 budget request wants to increase the Air Force's Predator and Reaper unmanned aircraft programs to 50 combat air patrols by fiscal year 2011 — an increase of nearly 300% since fiscal year 2007. In 2000, the DoD had fewer than 50 unmanned aircraft in its inventory; as of October 2009, this number had grown to more than 6,800. The program's success, however, is causing some big cracks in the system. According to a report issued this week by congressional watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office. The military is facing a number of challenges — including training, accessing national air space, and improving aircraft communications systems — that must be overcome if unmanned aircraft are to take their place as a central piece of the military's future, the GAO stated."
I love this, people that have never been in combat debating war, nothing makes you look like an ass faster.
"people have been saying this since the invention of the thrown rock" and they were and are correct, dropping bombs on weddings in Iraq from Las Vegas then going home to your wife and kid is a fucked up way to war, you should have to see it first hand, feel it, smell it, and die with them as well.
War sucks.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
P.S.:
While we are on the topic, what exactly is wrong with a war for oil?
Because parts of my family died in your (Soviets,Americans,etc) stupid childish wars, you stupid insensitive dick! Can you explain to the rest of my family, how it’s OK that they died for your greed for pointless consumption?
You can be happy that ’m not generalizing your attitude to all Americans, and know that it’s just a hand full of dicks that run the country or are ignorant cattle, that give the whole country a bad name.
But how are you (you personally!) surprised that we hate you (again, you personally), and that some less intelligent people generalize it?
I have an idea: The intelligent Afghans come to America and we team up, to send dicks like you to your equals, the Taliban. And then we bomb the shit out of you, for a change? ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.