Maybe all the hours kids of today spend in front of TVs with their X-Boxes will translate into something useful after all as they may become tomorrow's Air Force bomber squadron virtual pilots sitting in their living rooms or war rooms nuking and taking out caves and tents full of terror cells on the other side of the planet starting later this year.Don't fear the reaper will not be the battle cry of this killer as it is armed and ready to take out the camel filled convoys of turban and hood wearing terrorists from 50, 000 feet above the hot desert sands and the sooner this thing is deployed the better.
Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq:
My Way News - "BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles.
The Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a video console 7,000 miles away in Nevada.
The arrival of these outsized U.S. 'hunter-killer' drones, in aviation history's first robot attack squadron, will be a watershed moment even in an Iraq that has seen too many innovative ways to hunt and kill."
That moment, one the Air Force will likely low-key, is expected "soon," says the regional U.S. air commander. How soon? "We're still working that," Lt. Gen. Gary North said in an interview.
The Reaper's first combat deployment is expected in Afghanistan, and senior Air Force officers estimate it will land in Iraq sometime between this fall and next spring. They look forward to it.
"With more Reapers, I could send manned airplanes home," North said. continued
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