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Monday, March 10, 2008

RAF buys US robot planes to strike at the Taliban


Predator MQ-1
British pilots are poised to strike the Taliban from computer keyboards thousands of miles away in the American desert.

They are about to start targeting hostile forces in southern Afghanistan with weapons attached to unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, the latest weapon in Britain's armoury, senior RAF sources say.

The RAF is buying a fleet of American Predator Bs, or Reapers as the US military has named them, armed with bombs and Hellfire missiles.

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