Defence written question – answered at on 25 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost has been of using unmanned aerial vehicles on security missions to date.
holding answer
The current portfolio of unmanned air systems were all purchased as urgent operational requirements and have been used on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The total financial approval for delivering and sustaining these unmanned air systems at various times from 2007 until the end of 2014 in both theatres of operations is £774 million. Collectively these have flown for well over 140,000 hours.
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