Secretary of Defense Gates to Air Force: Get More UAV In The War


	Secretary of Defense Gates to Air Force: Get More UAV In The War

yojoe

4-30-2008 5:14 PM

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uav, ucav, unmanned-aircraft, air-force, secretary-of-defense, secdef, gates, robert-gates, iraq

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SecDef tells Air Force to rethink the need for pilots to fly UAV

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/96afa537-36a9-4205-bd86-68712efe394f/5ACD887C-A73F-42F0-BC12-68926FE60D3A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/secretary-of-defense-gates-to-air-force-get-more-uav-in-the-fight/" href="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/secretary-of-defense-gates-to-air-force-get-more-uav-in-the-fight/" style="font-size: 11px;">dreadnaught.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/secretary-of-defense-gates-to-air-force-get-more-uav-in-the-fight/"><P><A href="http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=115">SecDef Gates</A>, according to <A href="http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/GATES042208.xml">Aviation Week</A>, continues to bemoan the lack of <A href="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/category/military/military-hardware/unmanned-aircraft/uav/">UAV</A> in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He is doing something about it though, including directing the Air Force to,</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/secretary-of-defense-gates-to-air-force-get-more-uav-in-the-fight/"><P>Could this signal an end to the Air Force requirement that UAV be operated by pilots?  With the <A href="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/drone-aircraft-log-250000-hours-in-2007/">record number of hours logged by drones in 2007</A> and previous reports of <A href="http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/iraq-update-too-few-drones-in-the-air/">insurgents exploiting our lack of drone aircraft</A>, this may be a fait accompli. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5ACD887C-A73F-42F0-BC12-68926FE60D3A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>