Dollars for Drones
The Defense Department is spending more and more money on unmanned aerial vehicles. By the end of the decade, the military services will have spent more than $21 billion on developing and buying drones. Figures are in millions of dollars.
- 1988: 106
- 1989: 144
- 1990: 165
- 1991: 252
- 1992: 430
- 1993: 225
- 1994: 267
- 1995: 272
- 1996: 553
- 1997: 359
- 1998: 420
- 1999: 388
- 2000: 284
- 2001: 363
- 2002: 763
- 2003: 1,456
- 2004: 1,761
Projected
- 2005: 2,139
- 2006: 2,158
- 2007: 2,200
- 2008: 3,017
- 2009: 3,460
NEXT STORY: Blind Ambition: Factoids