Saturday, January 4, 2014

What The Pentagon Left Out In It's Drone Report

Defense Department

The Pentagon Quietly Left All the Cool Stuff Out Of Its Drone Report -- David Axe, War Is Boring

The U.S. Defense Department has published an updated version of its three-decade unmanned vehicle “roadmap,” which describes what kinds of robots the Pentagon has now and wants to acquire in the future, and how much money it expects to spend doing so—no less than $4 billion a year, every year, for the foreseeable future.

The report includes reams of detail but predictably leaves out some of the coolest and most important stuff, including any mention of three new stealth drones and the specially-modified Unmanned Aerial Vehicles the military operates alongside the Central Intelligence Agency.

The result is a 30-year drone map with some huge blank spaces.

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My Comment: What is not a secret is the Pentagon's desire to in finding new ways to weaponize it's 11K drones.

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