The U.S. Department of defense has planned to significantly increase the use of unmanned aerial vehicles

Over the next 4 years, the Ministry of defense of the United States plans to quickly increase the number of American unmanned aerial vehicles, to keep up with developments in a number of trouble spots around the world, said a senior official of the Ministry of defense.
the number of daily flights of unmanned aerial vehicles will be doubled, respectively, will become more active surveillance and intelligence gathering in such regions as Ukraine, Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic, South China sea and North Africa.
This will be the first significant strengthening of the U.S. drones program since 2011, which was a response to global challenges, writes the wall Street Journal referring to the high position of a bureaucrat at the Pentagon. Plan the U.S. Department of defense also includes the increased use of drones For air strikes ? This is the most controversial part of the American program the operation of drones, but also the most dynamic during the reign of Barack Hussein Obama. Human rights activists claim that in total, from attack drones were victims of at least least 3 thousand People in different countries. Now the Ministry of defense of the United States uses drones in most areas of its activity, and also caters for secret missions by the CIA in Pakistan and Yemen. For comparison: in 2004, U.S. drones have made five flights a day, now the so-called combat air patrols are doing 61 departing every day, and the Pentagon plans by 2019 to increase the Number of flights up to 90 per day. To expand the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, the U.S. Department of defense intends to raise the government's performers. Such drones like the MQ-1 Predator and its modification with a greater range of MQ-9 Reaper, passed in the command post the video in real time and a good enough quality to be monitored, for example, with the militants. Government contractors will be hired to fly the ancient Predator drones on as many as 10 flights a day, none of them strike missions. Remember, on July 31, the U.S. Bureau of investigative journalism said that the goals of military drones the US is called private contractors. Before the US and UK told about the intention to strengthen the application of drones in the battle against extremist group " Islamic state ".


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