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Policing The Big Empty
August
7, 2008: This year, U.S. Air Force Predator UAVs are expected to fly
over 120,000 hours. Last year they did 82,000 hours, and in 2006 they
flew 50,500 hours. The Predators are particularly in demand for
Afghanistan operations. Lots of relatively empty areas in
Afghanistan, places where the bad guys like to move around. Predators
are ideal for staking out chunks of this emptiness and monitoring it
for hostile activity on a 24/7 basis. The troops cannot get enough of
that service. Moreover, the Hellfire missiles carried by Predators
are ideal weapons for attacking whatever hostiles are discovered in
the big empty. Large groups of bad guys can be tracked by a Predator,
while friendly ground forces, or a manned aircraft (with more
firepower) close in to deal with the situation.
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