(Photo from CNET)From SaT News.com:
Air Force officials are "all in" with regard to unmanned aircraft systems, and understand the Defense secretary's direction to field the systems in the combat theater as fully and quickly as possible, said Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip.
The commander of 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern also stated the Air Force has 85 percent of its theater-level UAS capability deployed in support of operations in Southwest Asia. The other 15 percent are stateside to train UAS pilots and for operational test and development. The Air Force is doing all it can to speed up the UAS pilot training process, he added.
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My Comment: The money quote .... "Next year, the Air Force will procure more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft".