Wednesday, 22. February 2012
Topic: Drone - on February 22, 2012 at 1:02:00 PM CET
Drone journalism, businesses and policing — the pilotless aircraft could soon fill U.S. skies
The U.S. is ramping up its drone campaign in Afghanistan, Pakistan and soon... America.
In January, the FAA proposed new rules for the use of domestic drones, to implemented by 2015. The agency is being pressured to create new rules in part by the Pentagon, who warns that as two wars wind down, the nearly 7,500 robotic aircraft overseas need a place to come home to. But journalists and businesses also say they could make good use of the drones, and policemen have already starting using them.
The number of drones estimated to be in domestic operation by 2020: 30,000, according to the F.A.A.
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