Fear The Reaper…New UAV Gets First Kill
We told you about the Reaper UAV…today it is no longer a virgin. Here’s looking at you, sweetheart.
The Air Force’s use of remote-controlled aircraft passed another milestone Saturday with the first air strike flown by an MQ-9 Reaper, the service’s newest unmanned plane.
According to Central Air Forces, an MQ-9 fired a Hellfire missile at Afghanistan insurgents in the Deh Rawood region of the mountainous Oruzgan province. The strike was “successful,” CentAF said.
Based at Kandahar Air Field, Reapers have been flying over Afghanistan since Sept. 25. Like the smaller MQ-1 Predator, pilots and sensor operators in Nevada use satellite links to guide the planes on attack and reconnaissance sorties. A second set of deployed aviators control the planes’ take offs and landings.
The Reaper can carry up to 3,000 pounds of weapons while the MQ-1 is limited to 500 pounds of munitions.
(Air Force Times)
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Let’s see if Syria or Iran could detect them and get rid of their leaders?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:09 am“do you want to play a game?”….
October 31st, 2007 at 11:13 amYes, Fear the Reaper… and the hellfire
October 31st, 2007 at 11:15 amThis little beauty is armed to the teeth!
No longer a virgin, well i say congratulations and hope it racks up alot more knotches on the bedpost 
October 31st, 2007 at 11:29 amIf the Taliban don’t want to join us in the21st century, then I guess we’ll just have to bring the 21st century to them!
Suck it, Taliban.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pmBegun, the drone was has!
November 18th, 2007 at 7:53 pm