Unmanned Aircraft Crews Strive To Support Warfighters

An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft prepares to taxi out of a hangar at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

From The U.S. Air Force:

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for warfighters in Afghanistan, the Air Force's first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its never-ending quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly.

"I don't have to tell them to try to make it better," Col. Peter E. Gersten said of his 432nd Wing and 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. "They are working to make it better every day, all by themselves. ... Better every day is kind of a theme here."

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My Comment: This is just the beginning. One can only imagine what will be flying in the skies in the next 5 - 10 years.

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