If anyone doubted the US Air Force’s commitment to unmanned (read: robots) aircraft, you won’t after you hear this: The Air Force plans on acquiring more unmanned than manned aircraft next year. That’s a pretty amazing statistic, and amounts to billions of dollars of potential new business for companies in that market. The USAF currently maintains about 27 unmanned vehcles in the air above Afghanistan and Iraq at all times, and plans to double that number over the next 3 years. But, in order to do that, they need to train hundreds of new pilots to help fly them. They might also considering training more counselors to help the pilots deal with the trauma.