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Gates: More Drones

His new Pentagon budget asks $2 billion for them (plus manned surveillance planes), says Noah Shactman. Fear the Reaper.

P.S. This fact sheet says that four Reaper drones costs $53 million. So even if just half of that $2 billion goes to unmanned vehicles, you're talking about roughly 80 more of the critters.

--Michael Crowley