Staffing to operate a drone patrol of a single area for 24 hours

Analysts - some of whom may be private contractors - process the video gathered by the drone from multiple intelligence hubs and share anything noteworthy with mission control and the wider intelligence network

Processing exploitation and

dissemination (PED)

Leadership 23

Weapons tactics 16

Full motionvideo crew 30

Maintenance 14

Signals intelligence 12

Ground station 1

Maintenance 55

Sensor operators 4

Pilots 4

Aircraft 4

Small local crews handle the drone's takeoff and landing phases from the ground data terminal

Launch and recovery

Pilots 10

Ground station 1

Leadership 16

Mission

coordinator 10

Maintenance 8

Sensor operators 10

Pilots and sensor operators based at ground control centres operate the drone over satellite links. They are in constant contact with mission coordinators, commanders, analysts, lawyers and others

Mission control

Analysts - some of whom may be private contractors - process the video gathered by the drone from multiple intelligence hubs and share anything noteworthy with mission control and the wider intelligence network

Ground station 1

Maintenance 55

Leadership 23

Weapons tactics 16

Full motion

video crew 30

Maintenance 14

Signals

intelligence 12

Pilots 10

Sensor operators 4

Pilots 4

Aircraft 4

Ground station 1

Leadership 16

Mission

coordinator 10

Maintenance 8

Sensor operators 10

Pilots and sensor operators based at ground control centres operate the drone over satellite links. They are in constant contact with mission coordinators, commanders, analysts, lawyers and others

Small local crews handle the drone's takeoff and landing phases from the ground data terminal

Processing

exploitation and

dissemination (PED)

Mission control

Launch and recovery

Ground station 1

Maintenance 55

Leadership 23

Weapons tactics 16

Full motion video crew 30

Maintenance 14

Signals intelligence 12

Pilots 10

Sensor operators 4

Pilots 4

Aircraft 4

Ground station 1

Leadership 16

Mission coordinator 10

Maintenance 8

Sensor operators 10

Analysts - some of whom may be private contractors - process the video gathered by the drone from multiple intelligence hubs and share anything noteworthy with mission control and the wider intelligence network

Pilots and sensor operators based at ground control centres operate the drone over satellite links. They are in constant contact with mission coordinators, commanders, analysts, lawyers and others

Small local crews handle the drone's takeoff and landing phases from the ground data terminal

Processing exploitation and

dissemination (PED)

Mission control

Launch and recovery

Ground station 1

Maintenance 55

Leadership 23

Weapons tactics 16

Full motion video crew 30

Maintenance 14

Signals intelligence 12

Pilots 10

Sensor operators 4

Pilots 4

Aircraft 4

Ground station 1

Leadership 16

Mission coordinator 10

Maintenance 8

Sensor operators 10

Analysts - some of whom may be private contractors - process the video gathered by the drone from multiple intelligence hubs and share anything noteworthy with mission control and the wider intelligence network

Pilots and sensor operators based at ground control centres operate the drone over satellite links. They are in constant contact with mission coordinators, commanders, analysts, lawyers and others

Small local crews handle the drone's takeoff and landing phases from the ground data terminal

Processing exploitation and

dissemination (PED)

Mission control

Launch and recovery