DOD Plans Increase In UAV Combat Air Patrols

The Pentagon is planning to increase the number of UAV combat air patrols from 60 to 90 per day, according to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. That will happen in part by adding to the U.S. Army’s global use of the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Government contractors will operate unarmed UAVs...

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