Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @05:21AM from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As President Obama meets with advisors on an Afghanistan strategy today (who are now leaning more toward Joe Biden's more-drones policy), and even as Al Qaeda claims it's not all that scared of drones, the new issue of Esquire takes the first real in-depth look at the American military's UAV build-up. Defense geek Brian Mockenhaupt spends some time on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as back at the Pentagon, where the pilots ('more like snipers than fighter pilots') are playing a kind of role-playing game, getting to know terrorists' daily ins and outs. Looks like these Reaper drones are the real wave of the future, eh?"

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Re:infernal machines by YrWrstNtmr · 2009-10-14 05:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

czarangelus - We've been missing you on Fark.com. Please come home.
Re:I hate to say this... by Marxist+Hacker+42 · 2009-10-14 05:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not really- when reading the al Qaida link above, it made me wonder if a top-secret weapon today was smart dust.
In other words, who needs a network of spies if you can use a network of bluetooth-enabled robots less than a milimeter in diameter that stick to clothing?

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