Friday, October 12, 2007

Reaper

I've just heard on American National Public Radio that most of the fixed-wing US Air Force missions currently flown over Iraq are unmanned and controlled by pilots at an air base in Las Vegas. In a few weeks, the Air Force will deploy its first generation of unmanned bombers. The plane is appositely called "Reaper" and its payload of bombs will be dropped over Iraq and other countries by pilots sitting at desks in Nevada.

Brave new world.