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Like Boeing, Lockheed is testing a drone -- the Stalker -- that can stay in the air for days at a time. In 2012, the company brought in revenues of $47.2 billion. 4. Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Founded only in 1994, Northrop has quickly risen to become one of the top suppliers of military hardware in the world. In 2012, the company sold $1.2 billion worth of drones to South Korea, but revenue has dropped to $25.1 billion in 2012 from $34 billion in 2011.
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. 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.