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Обамовские дроны в цифрах
http://theweek.com/article/index/237009/the-rise-of-drone-warfare-by-the-numbers
с 2004 года американские беспилотники убили 2500 человек.
2,500
Estimated minimum number of people who have been killed in attacks by armed American unmanned aircraft since President Obama took office
2,341
Suspected Taliban and al Qaeda leaders who have been killed by U.S. drones in Pakistan since 2004
1
U.S. airstrike in Pakistan in 2004
35
U.S. airstrikes in Pakistan in 2008
117
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in 2009. That was President Obama's first year in office, and the year when these attacks peaked.
1,160
Unmanned aerial vehicle strikes the U.S. has launched in Afghanistan since 2009
50
U.S. drone strikes in Yemen since February, when The New York Times reported that the U.S. was aiming to kill two dozen al Qaeda leaders in the country. In the same period, the local al Qaeda franchise — al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — has grown from "several hundred" to "a few thousand members."
25
New models of sophisticated drones unveiled by Chinese companies at the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November. One presentation even featured an animation showing an armed drone attacking an American aircraft carrier.
1,250
Range, in miles, of a Shahed-129, Iran's newest drone
988
Miles between Tehran and Tel Aviv
8,000
Drones in the U.S. arsenal today
$36.9 billion
Amount the U.S. plans to invest to increase the size of its surveillance- and combat-drone force by 35 percent over the next eight years
$94 billion
Estimated global spending on research and purchase of drones over the next decade
$9 billion
Chunk of that money that will be spent on remotely piloted combat aircraft
50
Countries that already have unmanned aerial vehicles. Most of them are surveillance drones, although many could be fitted with missiles or bombs fairly easily. "I think of where the airplane was at the start of World War I: At first it was unarmed and limited to a handful of countries," P. W. Singer of the Brookings Institution, author of the 2009 robotic combat primer Wired for War, tells The New York Times. "Then it was armed and everywhere. That is the path we're on."