UAV / UCAV - Drohnen

[Quintus Fabius]

Mal zur stetig wiederholten Aussage vieler, dass Drohnen immens viel Personal sparen im Vergleich zu Flugzeugen und dass Drohnen deshalb besser sind, weil man weniger Soldaten für sie braucht....

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But a CAP also needs people—186 people, to be exact. Fifty-nine people launch, land and repair the Predators at airfields near the actual combat zones, in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Djibouti. Forty-five CAP members live and work at an air base in the United States, flying the drones via Ku-band satellite.

Another 82 people scattered across the U.S. pore over the video imagery the robots acquire and forward it onward to intelligence officials and front-line commanders.

In the span of just a few years, the Air Force went from employing only a few hundred drone operators, analysts and maintainers to needing tens of thousands of them.