U.S. military to step up drone flights by 2019 - Wall Street Journal


  • World
  • Monday, 17 Aug 2015

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military plans to widen its surveillance and firepower in conflict zones worldwide, including in Ukraine and the South China Sea, with a major expansion of U.S. drone flights, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Pentagon plans to increase daily flights by 50 percent over the next four years, expanding them from 61 a day now to as many as 90 by 2019, the Journal said in its report late Sunday, citing senior defence officials.

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