New Report Reviews Pentagon’s UAS Plans
AIN Defense Perspective 
The Pentagon is planning to buy a total of 551 Reaper (pictured) and Gray Eagle UAVs from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. (Photo: GA-ASI)
January 13, 2012, 11:05 AM
The Pentagon is now spending $3.3 billion annually to develop and buy unmanned aerial systems (UAS), but this sum is still only 8 percent of the total devoted to all aircraft, according to a new report on UAS by the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS).
The Jan. 3, 2012 report, titled "U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems," mostly rehashes previously published material, but it does contain an updated inventory of UAS platforms in service provided by the DoD’s UAS Task Force. These include 161 MQ-1 A/B Predators, 54 MQ-9 Reapers and 16 RQ-4B Global Hawks in the Air Force; 364 RQ-7 Shadows, 25 MQ-5 Hunters and 26 MQ-1 Warriors and Gray Eagles in the Army; and 122 Scan Eagles with the Navy and Special Operations Command.
The Jan. 3, 2012 report, titled "U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems," mostly rehashes previously published material, but it does contain an updated inventory of UAS platforms in service provided by the DoD’s UAS Task Force. These include 161 MQ-1 A/B Predators, 54 MQ-9 Reapers and 16 RQ-4B Global Hawks in the Air Force; 364 RQ-7 Shadows, 25 MQ-5 Hunters and 26 MQ-1 Warriors and Gray Eagles in the Army; and 122 Scan Eagles with the Navy and Special Operations Command.
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