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US budget (2), 3,4 billion requested for UAVs

Washington , USA - Growing demand of killer-drones

For the fiscal year 2009, the US Air Force has put in budget to purchase 93 aircraft. Of these, as many as 52 are Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), remote controlled airplanes used for recognition and increasingly also for combat missions in the last years. In total, the estimate presented by the Department of Defense for the UAVs is of over $3,4 billion for 2009, which would be divided up among...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1085570
Rome, Italy, 02/06/2008 19:48
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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