(singing) Movin' right along, we've found a life on the highway. Fozzie: (singing) And your way is my way, Kermit: So trust my navigation. Fozzie: California here we come, the pie-in-the-sky-land. Kermit: Palm trees, and warm sand. Fozzie: Though sadly we just left Rhode Island.
(432nd Wing/Air Force/DVIDS) General Atomics, the company that makes the Predator drone, will begin selling unarmed versions of the unmanned aerial vehicle to countries in the Middle East, the company announced Monday at the Paris Air Show.
Surveillance drones operated on the U.S.-Mexican border cost between $2,500 and$3,500 per flight hour. Each drone requires an hour of maintenance for every hour it spends in the air. Each Predator and Reaper drone (our most common strike drones) requires a team of 180 people to operate. properly. The cost of producing a military drone ranges from $100,000 to hundreds of millions of dollars. Over the next decade, the Pentagon plans to spend $40 billion on medium-to-large sized drones.