A bit of political posturing in the article to try and take charge of the US UAV program - but 5 collisions between manned aircraft and UAVs since 2003???
DefenseNews report
There's no way this would be tolerated if both aircraft were manned, so what's going on? A better (any?) method of deconfliction or accountability is clearly needed. We accept significant restrictions on routings to deconflict from other traffic - just because the 'pilot' of the other aircraft isn't there to be hurt shouldn't mean he can take his responsibilities any less seriously. Anybody in the know out there? If there have been "at least 5 collisions between UAVs and manned aircraft" how many airproxs have there been? Are incidents/accidents involving UAVs investigated in the same way as manned flight vs manned flight ones are? Taking a cheap shot - is this what we should expect when non-aviation Army bods get to task 'flying machines'?
See and be seen doesn't work against these things, but I suppose hitting one will get your attention...