Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Predator UAVs Deliver The Goods In Iraq

'The capabilities and importance of Predator UAVs are becoming clearer with each day the unmanned vehicles are deployed on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. From intelligence gathering, to eradication of insurgent forces, the Air Force wants its enemies to know that Predators are watching them from the skies... while pilots of the UAVs sit several (sometimes several thousand) miles away.

"I never thought I’d be doing anything like this," said Airman 1st Class Kyle Bridges recently, from his seat at an RQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ground control station at Balad Air Base, Iraq. "I signed up to be an imagery analyst, which I thought was going to be a cool job. Instead I was offered the chance to be a sensor operator on the Predator."'

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Posted by Darren at April 14, 2006 10:22 AM | More from UAV News |