US Purchasing Most Expensive Drones Yet

Global Hawk drones are capable of flying twice as high as commercial aircrafts and can spot, they allege, targets up to 100 miles away. Once identified, the robotic crafts that are controlled from 24-hour command stations can then send images to intelligence centers or directly to troops.The Global Hawk drones will replace the U-2 spy planes that the States currently deploys, which the US has relied on since the dawn of the Cold War. Sending unmanned aircrafts into warzones, while grossly expensive, comes as an attempt to limit their own fatalities by avoiding putting extra troops into danger. Though relying on on-board navigation, those U-2 flyers have proved lethal to both militants and civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A team of 50 engineers will slave over the construction of the Global Hawk drones in a Palmdale, California warehouse. They should call it 'The Slaughterhouse'. More here.