2. Drones, which come in numerous shapes and sizes, have a wide range of potential civilian and scientific uses, including law-enforcement and industrial monitoring. But they are overwhelmingly used for military purposes, mainly for reconnaissance and combat operations.
 |
| pic source: CNN |
3. Reaper drones’ “unblinking stare” can currently take in a 4 kilometer by 4 kilometer area, but that will soon be expanded, said Air Force Lieutenant General Larry James, to a 10 kilometer by 10 kilometer stare, or two-thirds the size of Washington, D.C.
4. Armed drones were originally invented to find Osama Bin Laden.
 |
| Drone |
5. The U.S. Air Force has 65,000 – 70,000 people working to process all of the data and footage it’s currently collecting from drones.
6. There was a fair amount of disagreement about what to call drones including "spy planes", "Remote piloted Airplanes (RPA)", so also "Killer drones"
7. Drones are manufactured in U.S.A, Iran, Israel and India. Russia and China yet to announce success in the technology
8. The U.S.-made Predator (which costs $4.5 million-$11 million per unit) or the larger, more expensive and more advanced Reaper ($30 million per unit) are the best-known UAVs.
9. There are drones as small as an insect.
 |
| A small drone |
10. Drone has been used to deliver pizza in India