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The Daily Mail: Wiped out by an RAF team sitting 3,000 miles away: The controversial technology behind the remote controlled drone attack
* British jihadists Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff and Ruhul Amin, 26, from Aberdeen, killed in attack on August 21
* They were blitzed in Syria by a drone controlled by RAF pilots sitting 3,000 miles away in Lincolnshire
* Airmen were operating the controversial £10m Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from hub at RAF Waddington
* The use of pilotless planes mirrors the plot of popular US drama Homeland, shown on Channel 4
Two of the British jihadists killed in Syria were blitzed by a drone controlled by RAF pilots sitting 3,000 miles away in Lincolnshire.
The experienced airmen were operating the controversial £10million Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a hi-tech control hub at RAF Waddington.
As the unsuspecting jihadists travelled in a vehicle in Raqqa, capital of the so-called Islamic State, they were wiped out by a laser-guided Hellfire missile.
Pilots from 13 Squadron ordered the craft – about the size of a small executive jet – to carry out airstrikes from a height of up to 50,000ft using its fearsome arsenal.
WNU Editor: No mentioned on how these men were targeted .... ground/air surveillance, informer, luck?
