(Click Photo To Enlarge)The MQ-9 Reaper taxies into Creech Air Force Base, Nev., home to the newly reactivated 432nd Wing. The 432nd Wing consists of six operations squadrons and a maintenance squadron for the Air Force fleet of 60 MQ-1 Predator and six MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr. Source: USAF (Photo from The Predator UAV)
From The Australian:
OSAMA bin Laden is not yet a busted flush, but the damage caused to his organisation by US Predator spy drones operating close to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has torn a huge hole in his global network.
Al-Qa'ida's tentacles still reach out to bin Laden supporters and sympathisers in dozens of countries, but every time a senior commander is eliminated by a Hellfire missile or a precision-guided bomb from an unmanned Predator, the effect is felt across the terrorist network.
Although al-Qa'ida has no central communication system and no headquarters, cells in Europe or North Africa will have points of contact (individuals who can act as messengers or as lower-echelon supervisors, and who can pass on advice or guidance).
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My Comment: This unmanned vehicle has completely revolutionized the battlefield. American commanders are universal in their comments that when conducting operations, UAV vehicles flying over their heads always made them feel safe. The enemy have voiced the opposite .... unmanned UAVs always strike fear because of their accuracy and ability to zero in on their targets very quickly.
For Al Qaeda, their operational leaders are now mostly dead because of this weapon system. Nothing beats success and ends debate on a weapon system when most of your enemies important operational figures are no longer around because of this one weapon system.
