SecDef Gates, according to Aviation Week, continues to bemoan the lack of UAV in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is doing something about it though, including directing the Air Force to,
rethinking long-standing service assumptions and priorities about which missions require certified pilots and which do not.
Could this signal an end to the Air Force requirement that UAV be operated by pilots? With the record number of hours logged by drones in 2007 and previous reports of insurgents exploiting our lack of drone aircraft, this may be a fait accompli.
yojoe out
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