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Old 01-24-2012, 08:40 PM
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The USAF has acknowledged that about 25% of Global Hawks have crashed. Makes you wonder if there are more.

According to what I found on the web, including R&D, each GH cost $218 million! The GAO found it had an accident rate 100 times the F-16 in a combat-zone.

(Northrop said it was unfair to compare a mature system with a new one).

Preds and Reapers have similar loss rates (70 lost), but are much cheaper ($10 million), so the USAF can justify it.
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