In the book Old Yeller was a Black Mouth Cur. Black mouth curs were not uncommon in the earlier USA days (âwild westâ days) in the southern USA (Texas, etc.) and could have been chosen as the breed in the book because it was recognized and it was a common hunting companion dog.
The cost per flight hour varies by type of drone. Predator and Reaper drones cost about $2,500-3,500 per flight hour; larger armed systems such as the militaryâs Global Hawk cost about 10 times as much: approximately $30,000 per flight hour.
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.