Drone Nation: Interesting Facts About Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

DRONE NATION Interesting Facts About Unmanned Aerial Vechicles A Drone's "Gorgon Stare" Can Scan the Area of a Small Town There Could Be 64 30,000 Drone Bases Drones Over the on U.S. Soil U.S. by 2020 MQ-1 PREDATOR FACTS Covert Drone Attacks: Top altitude: 25,000 feet Horsepower: 115 Wingspan: 55 feet Top speed: 135 mph Cost: $4.5 to $11 million Bush 44 Obama 230+ Deployed Predator and Reaper drones typically carry 100- pound laser-guided Hellfire missiles or U.S. Troops in Afganistan have been issued the "Switchblade", an armed drone that can fit in a backpack 500-pound GPS- guided smart bombs Drone Strike Approval Rate Around the Globe Pew 2012 Survey 44% 17% APPROVE APPROVE 62% 38%) 25% APPROVE APPROVE 21% APPROVE APPROVE 6% 32% APPROVE (24% 19% APPROVE, APPROVL APPROVE Only the United States has a higher approval than disapproval rate of drone attacks. Back in the United States... Airforce pilots near Las Vegas can fly drones 7,500 miles away in Afganistan. The Air Force has 65,000 - 70,000 people working to process all of the data collected from drones. Sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/09/10-fun-facts-about-drones/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-kill-list-is- unchecked-presidential-power/2012/06/11/9JQAHW05WV_story.html http://www.rferl.org/content/drones_who_makes_them_and_who_has_them/24469 168.html http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/64-drone-bases-on-us-soil/ http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id%3D122 http://www.smh.com.au/world/backpack-drones-latest-us-weapon- 20120613-20afb.html http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/11/business/la-fi-kamikaze-drone-20120611 http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/06/13/global-opinion-of-obama- slips-international-policies-faulted/ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/21/world/la-fg-drone-crews21-2010feb21 Photo: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id%3D123063918 created by CriminalJusticeDegreeSchools.com JAS