Use Of UAVs In War On Terror Expanding, Weatherington Says

Posted on: Oct. 14th, 2004 || Source: aviationnow.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

The U.S. Defense Department's use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the war on terrorism continues to expand, with hundreds of UAVs currently deployed with U.S. forces overseas, according to Dyke Weatherington, head of the Pentagon's UAV Planning Task Force.

"Last year ... we [had] probably 10 different models of UAVs out there," Weatherington said at the Precision Strike Technology Symposium in Laurel, Md., Oct. 12. "The total numbers were fairly low. Today we have probably 400 different UAVs in the field. A significant number of those are small UAVs, but the numbers even at the tactical level are growing very rapidly."

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