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U.S. Army Predator UAV crash

According to the Russian military-industrial complex website on October 25 reported that Libya launched in NATO air strikes in a few months, although the involvement of the United States is very limited, but the U.S. Army UAV opened fire intensity during this period has set a new record.

Although the U.S. military’s “Predator” unmanned attack aircraft in the NATO military operation began three weeks later arrived in the Libyan war zone, but according to data released by the Pentagon, from April 21 onwards, this the number of types of UAV attack reached a record 145 times. In comparison, the U.S. military use of UAVs in Pakistan this year, the number of air strikes, only 57 times, even in the UAV record number of attacks in 2010, U.S. drone fired on targets in Pakistan, but also 117 times time.

transition committee to Libya in late August this year, armed men to seize Tripoli, the “Predator” unmanned aerial vehicles have been launched in four months time, 92 “Hellfire” missiles. After this two months time, the U.S. UAV out of the more frequent, the number of attacks reached 53 times.

is easy to see from the above data, “Predator” unmanned aerial vehicles very actively involved in military operations in Libya. U.S. military aircraft in combat in the implementation of 397 times, 145 times by the “Predator” completed. Although the number is far below the U.S. air strike in September this year in Afghanistan, the aircraft launched 554 attacks, but in the U.S. air strikes against another country, the UAV is the first time accounted for such a high proportion. However, the U.S. Navy in advance using the “Tomahawk” missiles and carrier-based fighter jets destroyed a large number of military facilities in Libya, so the “Predator” unmanned aerial vehicle has not been used to suppress Lee’s Army air defense system. In this operation mode, the U.S. Pentagon’s first successful verification of the “remote war” theory, that is, the war in the future no one can be used to destroy enemy units attack the economic and military potential.

in the U.S. arsenal, the future will have a large number of manned aircraft is X-47B, “Avenger”, “Phantom Ray” and “Fire Scout” UAV replaced by other These new equipment will be used to perform a large scale, “surgical” precision tactical tasks, such as search and destroy the enemy’s rear with the important task of the hidden characters and other facilities in order to avoid possible loss of its own personnel.

in the future, the U.S. military may be more frequent with the use of a similar mode of action in Libya, to achieve zero loss of staff, reducing the threshold for the use of military force. According to the U.S. military’s “remote war” theory, the use of UAVs can be launched at the enemy’s defensive front, thousands of kilometers away on the depth of the target in the enemy territory to launch a surprise attack. Meanwhile, the cost of launching such a strike will be very low – taking into account the average of 1000-2000 million dollars UAV unit, even if the loss amounted to dozens, the cost of action is very limited. According to statistics, as of September 30, U.S. Department of Defense to carry out operations in the Libyan capital spent only 11 billion U.S. dollars, far less than the same period the cost inherent in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Compass)

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