What is the unexpected trouble that the U.S. military managing unmanned reconnaissance drones has the maximum?

Recently "Drone" has come to point to multicopter, but the original drone is operated by the US Air Force etc.Unmanned aerial vehicleis. "RQ-1 Predator"Drone, which has already been battlefielded in war, seems to have big problems in operation.

As Stress Drives Off Drone Operators, Air Force Must Cut Flights - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/as-stress-drives-off-drone-operators-air-force-must-cut-flights.html

The unmanned astronaut RQ-1 Predator started development from the first half of the 1980s as a compact, lightweight and unobtrusive drone in line with CIA's request, and after being highly appreciated by the reconnaissance activities in 2000 in Afghanistan, Osama bin - As a result of being given a justified name of Ladin assassination, the development pace accelerated greatly. With the improvement of IT technology, it became possible to send and receive reconnaissance images in real time, and we continued evolving that we could pilot from the ground and fully autopilot.


And in 2009Pakistan-Taliburn MovementSucceeded in killing enemy commanders, in 2011Civil war in LibyaOkay.Gaddafi ColonelSucceeded to destroy the vehicle that rides. Accurately unrelated and merciless attack capabilities are often powerful enough to erode ethical objections, and drone has become an indispensable weapon for contemporary warfare.

The drones, which became modern weapons, must be controlled from the ground in order to autonomously make a cycling flight while tracking and remote control. Besides the pilot, the drone team that is controlled by multiple people includes civilian technicians other than military personnel, but operation of the military personnel is responsible for bombing and other attack operations by the belligerent rule of the US military And that.


Although it is a drone pilot that can be remote-controlled, it is not dangerous to be directly attacked by enemies, but it is known to suffer great mental damage. It is caused by intermittent repetition of mental stress by witnessing bombing scenes by satellite motion pictures, or "unusual" of a tense military duty and "daily life" living a quiet life. It is said that spiritual damage will occur in various aspects such as mental balance mental. Furthermore, it has also been pointed out that the physical burden is great due to the long "flight" mission that is several times the pilot of manned aircraft.

As described above, the drill of the drone pilot is harsh, and it is said that dropouts are continuing. Among the unmanned aircraft pilots with 1,200 in the US Air Force, a considerable proportion of pilots are dissatisfied with their duties and they are studying the option of "retired".

Regarding the operation of Drone, "Despite the desire to increase the number of drunks to make it always flying to more than 70 aircraft, it is difficult to realize due to serious pilot shortage," Pentagon officials told the New York Times He said that. Also, in the past 10 years I have switched most of the pilots to lecturers in the training program in order to maintain the number of flight of drone which has rapidly expanded to 10 times in scale, but it is half of planned as a drone pilot In circumstances, pilot development plans are also interfering.


The US Air Force is currently experiencing a serious risk of mass dropout of pilots, and rather than increasing the number of drone flights, it is expected that it will be forced to cut greatly as it is. About this situation Colonel James Krav, who issues a command to Drone from Air Force 's 432nd Wing in the northwest of Las Vegas said, "I thought that by the end of the mission in Afghanistan at the end of 2014 I could considerably reduce the number of drones' flights, IS It is forced to change the plan by the miscalculation that it is the rapid rise of the country (commonly known as "Islamic country").

The cause of the pilot mass dropout of the US Air Force is not only attributable to the pilot's mental and physical burden too much, but also due to the rapidly expanding drone's private demand. According to Trevor Tajin of former Drone pilot who retired in 2014, some private companies are inviting a drone pilot by presenting quadruple salary of the military. The mass loss of the drone pilot is sure to affect the American military mission, Col. Col. Clark said "The US Air Force is now at a branch point."