Airmen pre-flight an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.

An MQ-9B Reaper assigned to the 42nd Attack Squadron based at Creech AFB, Nevada, loaded with four inert 500lb GBU-12 laser-guided bombs.

An MQ-9 Reaper taxies after landing at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

An airman inspects the weapons loadout on an MQ-9 Reaper prior to a mission in Afghanistan.

A sensor operator watches one of many screens in the ground control station.

A pilot (rear of the shot) flies an MQ-9 Reaper while the sensor operator controls a full motion video camera in a ground control station at Kandahar AB, Afghanistan.

Overhead view of an MQ-9 Reaper pilot's workstation in a ground control station.