The base's burgeoning fleet is enabling
the Obama administration to track Islamist radicals in Afghanistanm
Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Photograph: Getty Images
The electronic cavern is dark, save for the glow of consoles,
and Lt Col Mike Weaver surveys his apprentice warriors with satisfaction
as they project American might halfway around the world. One crew – two
young men in flight suits seated before half a dozen screens – prepares
to fire missiles from a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) at a boatload
of suspected insurgents in
Afghanistan.
Another crew circles a suspicious bulge by a roadside in Iraq and feeds
co-ordinates to ground troops. Another tracks what appears to be a
vehicle in
Yemen.
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