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Donald Trump says he wants the later
allowance to do more this is one way
they can do that these are the first
NATO owned and operated unmanned
surveillance drones the Global Hawk
based here in Sicily can travel halfway
around the world on one tank of fuel it
can stay up in the air for more than 30
hours pairing and surveillance
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and here believe it or not is the
cockpit on the ground at Sigonella
airbase in a side room where the sensor
operator sitting here and over here the
pilot flying the aircraft with just the
click of a mouse
how'd he fly you fly it based on the IP
system windows-based by a computer we
don't have any control sticks control
yokes it's all all via this little mouse
right here it's a pretty big leap
forward to have our own organic
intelligence surveillance reconnaissance
aircraft that we don't have to rely on
getting time from somebody else it's
ours so we can't ask it the way we want
to task it
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Intelligence Surveillance reconnaissance
is also about understanding what is
going on close to our borders and we
have seen a significant Russian military
buildup or loss tears we saw how Russia
used force against a Crimea and
illegally annexing Crimea if we had the
capability like that and in 2014 we
would have been able to understand much
earlier and better what was happening in
countries where this drone is not armed
it is still primarily a military tool
and these unmanned systems are not
without controversy not least because
they can make warfare seem more remote
they can also become a target in fact
one of these a u.s. one was shot down
last year by Iran and at more than a
hundred million dollars each they don't
come cheap
you