Predator crashed

wrote

A lttle discussed issue about RPVs is that they do not survive
ordinary use that well. I read somewhere that 1000 hours has rarely
been exceeded before some glitch or other stuffs them into a hillside
or cornfield even without being shot at.

That seems a little strange. With a reported price of 6.8 MILLION Dollars,
I would think reliability would rival the best of small aircraft.

Which begs another question. Why are they using a relatively cheap engine,
like a Rotax, in such an expensive vehicle?
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Jim in NC