[saganite]

Pilotless surveillance and attack aircraft are having a coming out party in this war. The military can’t get enough of them.

[conservativehusker]

Isn’t part of the reason that the AF brass (who are mostly pilots) want only qualified pilots who are officers to “fly” these birds..while the army uses enlisted men??

[quadrant]

It isn't so much a lack of aircraft as it is the mule-headed insistence by the Air Force that these pilot-less aircraft be controlled (or piloted, if you prefer) by rated pilots. No one who has observed kids at a video arcade believes that the military needs a rated pilot for this sort of job.