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Flying Spy Surge: Surveillance Missions Over Afghanistan Quadruple -- The Danger Room
In mid-2009, as the Pentagon began sending a slew of new spy planes to Afghanistan, a top military official joked that the U.S. was about to “blot out the sun” with all the new surveillance drones there.
Turns out, that official wasn’t entirely kidding. Back in 2009, NATO aircraft flew about 22 surveillance missions per day over Afghanistan. Today, according to military statistics, the coalition is flying nearly 85 spy sorties daily, for a total of more than 22,800 missions in the first nine months in 2011.
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My Comment: And this is just the beginning. Surveillance and intelligence has always played a crucial role in any conflict. Drone surveillance is going to change this by increasing surveillance intelligence and information by many magnitudes .... the key will then be having the analysts on the ground available to make sense of this info .... and then acting on it in a short time frame.
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