Cost of drone conversions leads to testing 'crisis'
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The accuracy of newer air-to-air missiles is depleting the U.S. Air Force's stock of QF-4 drone airframes more rapidly than anticipated, and the cost of replacing them with mothballed F-16s may be too prohibitive, according to David Hamilton, the service's deputy director of...
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