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No pilot... Amazing story under picture!

This is a photo of the Global Hawk UAV that returned

from the war zone recently under its own power.

( Iraq to Edwards AFB in CA) -

Not transported via C5 or C17.....
Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage.

It's actually over 250 missions...

(and I would suppose 25 air medals).

That's a long way for a remotely-piloted aircraft.
Think of the technology (and the required quality

of the data link to fly it remotely). Not only that

but the pilot controlled it from a nice warm control

panel at Edwards AFB. Really long legs- can stay

up for almost 2 days at altitudes above 60k.

The Global Hawk was controlled via satellite; it flew

missions during OT&E that went from Edwards AFB

to upper Alaska and back non-stop. Basically, they

come into the fight at a high mach # in mil thrust,

fire their AMRAAMS, and no one ever sees them or

paints with radar.

There is practically no radio chatter because all the

guys in the flight are tied together electronically,

and can see who is targeting who, and they have

AWACS direct input and 360 situational awareness

from that and other sensors The aggressors had a

morale problem before it was all over. It is to air

superiority what the jet engine was to aviation.

It can taxi, take off, fly a mission, return, land and

taxi on it's own. No blackouts, no fatigue, no relief

tubes, no ejection seats, and best of all, no dead pilots, no POWs?