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US robot airplanes for the base of Balad

Balad, Iraq - The remote-controlled Reaper's pilot sits at a video console

New American military airplanes are about to be deployed in the main US air base in Iraq, Balad, around 70 km from Baghdad, to be used in Afghanistan and Iraq. The characteristic of these aircraft is they have no one on board, being UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, they are remote-controlled by a pilot sitting at a video console in Nevada. Powered by a turboprop engine, the ghost airplane, model...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1076946
Rome, Italy, 07/16/2007 16:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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