{"id":175650,"date":"2023-05-18T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=175650"},"modified":"2023-05-18T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:30:58","slug":"the-us-militarys-11-most-expensive-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/the-us-militarys-11-most-expensive-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Military’s 11 Most Expensive Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war in Ukraine, now well into its second year, has featured an unprecedented level of drone warfare. Ukraine and Russia have each deployed the remote-controlled, crewless aerial vehicles for both recon missions and as weapons, dropping grenades onto tanks to deploying them as robotic forward observers to help direct mortar fire and artillery.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe size and the scale of drone use in Ukraine supersedes all the previous conflicts,\u201d Samuel Bendett, an analyst of uncrewed military systems, told the AFP news service in January. Notably, the war in Ukraine has shown the effectiveness of small, inexpensive, and expendable commercial-type drones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ukraine has also deployed larger Turkish combat drones in the war against Russia\u2019s invasion, while Russia has been using Iranian \u201ckamikaze\u201d drones. (Here are <\/span>the 25 countries selling the most weapons, and who their biggest clients are<\/span>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States has been a leader in producing some of the largest, most advanced, and most expensive military-grade drones. Provocative names like \u201cPredator,\u201d \u201cReaper,\u201d and \u201cStingray\u201d reflect how these drones have been used in the U.S. global war on terror that has been going on for more than two decades. (These are the <\/span>40 countries spending the most on war<\/span>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

To identify the most expensive drones in the U.S. military, 24\/7 Wall St. reviewed a range of official government sources as well as recent press coverage of arms deals. Every drone on this list has a unit cost of at least $1 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When possible, drone unit costs came from a July 2022 drone report from the Congressional Research Service titled \u201c<\/span>Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Current and Potential Programs<\/span>.\u201d The unit cost estimates used in this report are in current dollars. For drones not covered in the report, we relied on media reports of recent arms deals or unit costs as reported by the U.S. military that we adjusted to current dollars using the CPI inflation calculator from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are the most expensive drones in the U.S. military.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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