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Air Force Drones Hit 1 Million Combat Hours 113

coondoggie writes "If you needed any more evidence as to how important unmanned aircraft have become to the US military operations, the US Air Force today said drones have amassed over one million combat hours flown. While that number is impressive, it took the planes known as Global Hawk, Predator and Reaper, almost 14 years to do it, but it could take only a little over another two years to cross the two million mark according to Air Force officials."
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Air Force Drones Hit 1 Million Combat Hours

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  • by kamapuaa ( 555446 ) on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:42PM (#36534490) Homepage

    I like the program and hope to see it expanded. I think the US should have these continually flying sortees all over the world. So if a bad guy shows up in Europe, the US can easily take him out with a Tomahawk missile or two.

  • by AliasMarlowe ( 1042386 ) on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:53PM (#36534650) Journal

    I like the program and hope to see it expanded. I think the US should have these continually flying sorties all over the world. So if a bad guy shows up in Europe, the US can easily take him out with a Tomahawk missile or two.

    I'd prefer if they started by doing this in Manhattan.
    I heard there are some non-patriots actually inside the Beltway in D.C.

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