Interesting @CSIS report by @ToddHarrisonDC on #drones.
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"The data indicate that remotely piloted AISR aircraft have not reduced demand for crewed aircraft. Rather, these new aircraft have been used to satisfy previously unmet demand that existing crewed aircraft could not surge to meet."
These are really interesting findings!
Unmanned systems still need quite a few people to fly them, and so (in the US) the personnel cost per system is the same as for manned aircraft. Per flight hour, however, costs are lower.
Unmanned systems still need quite a few people to fly them, and so (in the US) the personnel cost per system is the same as for manned aircraft. Per flight hour, however, costs are lower.
Personnel costs per aircraft (RQ-4 is the Global Hawk, MQ-9 the Reaper, MQ-1 the Predator)
"A typical Reaper of Predator #drone combat line [...] consists of four aircraft and requires some 49 people in the mission control element and 59 people in the forward-deployed launch and recovery element."
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