The Reaper is loaded w/ one and a half tons of bombs, able to fly at 300mph and outfitted with state of the art targeting, but there is no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a console 7,000 miles away in Nevada. The arrival of these outsized U.S. “hunter-killer” drones is aviation history’s first robot attack squadron (via News dugg by marszau)
