Air Combat Command is not backing away from an internal memo that portrays the remotely piloted aircraft enterprise as a community stretched to its limits due to the insatiable demand for unmanned surveillance and strike aircraft to support operations in the Middle East. According to command officials, the central issue is that Predator and Reaper groups have remained at surge levels since the service launched its 65th MQ-1/9 combat air patrol, or "orbit," in May last year, even though the...
