[kingu]

All those questions, one already spelled out answer: The drones, under current contracts, will cost the air force half a billion dollars a year just to operate.

Now, if those contracts are modified, that's a whole different picture, but at the moment, the Air Force is playing hardball - the Global Hawks go to the boneyard if they're going to cost half a billion a year to operate.

A rare moment of sanity in Washington.

[az_gila]

So you can operate all 18 Global Hawks for a year, and presumably pay a number of service folk to fly and maintain them, all for the price of one Solyndra?

Guess which employs more people?