To: TalonDJ
I heard it takes over 200 personnel to support UAVs.
33 posted on
02/28/2013 9:52:09 AM PST by
USAF80
To: USAF80
I heard it takes over 200 personnel to support UAVs.
Not surprising. In addition to it being a full blow aircraft with all the maintenance needs of one, you also need the infrastructure for the data link.
Plus until these things have been PROVEN in a serious war, one where the other side uses anti satellite weapons then it will be national suicide to sell all the manned systems and replace them. It would be a pretty nasty shock to have a Chinese carrier off the coast and all our drones are at the bottom of the ocean because they shot a few satellites down.
34 posted on
02/28/2013 10:10:28 AM PST by
TalonDJ
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