Drones, Drones, and More Drones!

The use of pilotless drones are up 94% in 2008.  The flight hours graph is particularly enlightening; 400,000 hours logged for all of 2008 between the military services.

I wonder what the numbers will be in 2009 and in 2010 as the United States escalates in AfPak.

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