Drones Have Flown 3 Million Hours from 60 Bases Around the World
by John Glaser,
November 02, 2011
Flying all over the world, increasingly sophisticated drones have been in the air much longer than is official acknowledged. According to statistics provided by the Army, Navy and Air Force, remotely piloted aircraft have flown around 2.7 million flight hours, and more than 87 percent of the time, these drones have been involved in combat. At least U.S. military and CIA 60 drone bases are peppered across the globe and their use is only getting more ubiquitous and more ominously capable at killing.
Read the whole report by Nick Turse at AlterNet.
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John Ellis
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:40 am
Half of the jobs in America are great jobs, half the homes are terrific homes and their all owned by the most aggressive and wealthy upper half of society. So, the corporate rich to keep these gods of society well pleased, has ordered government to drone kill, terrorize and plunder the world, for there is “stability” only in expanding wealth, and safety only in expanding deadly force.