Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone

parallel_prankster writes "A recent Congressional Research Service report, titled U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems, looks at the more-prominent role being played by drones. In 2005, drones made up just 5 percent of the military's aircraft. Today one in three American military aircraft is a drone. The upsides of drones are that they are cheaper and safer — the military spent 92% of the aircraft procurement money on manned aircraft. The downside — they're bandwidth hogs: a single Global Hawk drone requires 500 megabytes per second worth of bandwidth, the report finds, which is 500 percent of the total bandwidth of the entire U.S. military used during the 1991 Gulf War."

first post!

[Anonymous Coward]

posted remotely by a drone...

2 out of 3 US Workers

[Ukab the Great]

are bandwidth-hogging drones. Eat your heart out US military.

5 Steps to Internet Bliss

[Haileri$]

1. Convert your country to some un-American religion (try not worshipping money or something) 2. Pretend you have $hitloads of oil 3. Run around a lot in the wilderness wearing nothing but Gucci handbags so when they inevitably invade they have to chase you Benny Hill style with drones 4. Once your entire country has been upgraded to a 200 GB/second cloud to handle all the drones flying around fess up that the oil was a myth. 5. Download-pr0n heaven

Re:Distinction without...

[flyingfsck]

No, it is the USA. So it would be an Imperial Shitload. Anyway, total BS.

Re:Is this a legitimate comparison?

[Sockatume]

I am not sure that any amount of Lego tires would fit onto a full-sized car. People, do not replace your spare with a trunk full of Lego ones.

Re:Is this a legitimate comparison?

[Chowderbags]

Next up on Mythbusters, can you fill a flat with Lego tires and drive away?

Re:It needs what???

[Kjella]

However, he translated 500Mbps (megaBITS per second) to megabytes per second. 500Mbps is actually closer to 62.5MB/s -- still a lot compared to residential bandwidth in the US, but not half a terabyte every second.

So he doesn't know bits from bytes and you don't know giga from tera, but together you're dynamite ;)