FILE PHOTO. An Orion-E unmanned aircraft on display at the 4th Army-2018 International Military Technical Forum in Kubinka, Russia. © Sputnik
RT: Russia reveals size of its growing drone army
The Russian military is expanding its arsenal of unmanned vehicles, allowing operators to watch and engage hostile forces from the safety of command posts miles away from the action, President Vladimir Putin has revealed.
During a meeting with defense chiefs in the south-coast city of Sochi, Putin disclosed that the country has at least 2,000 drones for use in reconnaissance missions and, increasingly, to play combat roles. According to him, scientists and engineers now “need to continue working on them, working as hard as we have been recently, using artificial intelligence and the most up-to-date achievements of modern technology.”
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WNU Editor: Could not find an accurate account on how many drones are in the US military. But this Wikipedia post says there are thousands (link here).
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