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Edited by Christian Lowe | Contact

Drone Chalks Up First Iraq Kill

So we all heard about killer drones hunting down AQ bigwigs in Afghanistan (and maybe even Pakistan) and Yemen. But now we got word of a new battlefield for the armed drone.

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Sure, the MQ-9 "Reaper" has made some headlines in the past, but in what sounds like a first, the Army’s newly armed MQ-5B/C Hunter targeted a team of bad guys implanting a roadside bomb near Qayyarah.

We reported that the Army was to deploy these robot killers to Iraq, but the Pentagon announced this weekend the Hunter’s first kill. The attack occurred on Sept. 1, according to officials in Iraq, but why it took a week to announce the development is anyone’s guess.

Drones are a ubiquitous presence in Iraq. You can hear their lawn-mower buzz overhead all day and all night. I know more than a few Soldiers and Marines who had wished all along that the little plane buzzing overhead could just zap the target itself, rather than force troops to run the IED gauntlet and possibly miss the enemy team.

From MNF-I:

A Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle engaged and killed two suspected improvised explosive device emplacers overwatching a major thoroughfare for Coalition Forces during a historic flight near Qayyarah, Iraq, in Nineveh province Sept. 1.

A scout weapons team from 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, observed the two unknown enemy fighters in a tactical overwatch near the roadside. The SWT requested support from the Hunter UAV.

The pilots guided the Hunter operator to the scene where it set up for a strike mission and dropped its precision munition, killing both unknown enemies and marking a first in Army Aviation history.

"It’s very humbling to know that we have set an Army historical mark in having the first successful launch in combat from an Army weaponized UAV," said Capt. Raymond Fields, commander, Unmanned Aerial Surveillance Company. "This would not be possible without my Soldiers and civilians working hard day in and day out in Iraq to accomplish this feat."

Fields continued, "I think that this success will set the tone for Army Aviation in years to come. We will see more weaponized Army unmanned vehicles being used instead of manned platforms to save not only our aviator brethren but our Army ground brethren from enemy contact."

"This accomplishment adds a precise and discriminate means for our Army to successfully engage the enemy in counterinsurgency warfare," said Col. A.T. Ball, commander, 25th CAB.

(Gouge: NC; Photo: Defense Update)

-- Christian

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You know the world isn't going to stand still on this! Somewhere there's an fighter "Anti-Drone" UAV on somebody's drawing board/CAD. It's going to happen, if it hasn't already. This stuff never ends. I bet the Fighter Anti-Drone UAV is developed by the same guys sell US these NOW!

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Just to give a chance for peaceful life for the rest (still most?) of us.

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just give us the video from this plane, ok?

Posted by: bujnos at October 8, 2007 04:12 AM


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Posted by: Thomas P Astley at September 29, 2007 11:14 PM


Would you rather see our Marines or other military personnel die because of a road side bomb they ran over or should we save lives and let the Hunter do the job? Ask any one in the military and they will tell you it's one heck of a great weapon. Yes I used my real name unlike some others.

Posted by: Dan McCall at September 20, 2007 12:24 PM


Why doesn't Jonathan and the other whiny A-Holes use their real names like Col. A.T. Ball, commander, 25th CAB. Try saying your BS to a Marine or soldiers face!

I used my real name, how about you punk?!

Posted by: Jeff Storm at September 20, 2007 09:14 AM


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One other thing, you always get American soldier accusing the insurents of çowardly attacks because the insurgents won't fight face to face, is this not the same thing, or is this somehow different?

Still it was a good post, high definition and so much better than the grainy insurgentposted ones of HMMWVs getting shredded and the US troops getting burnt to death, or am I missing something in celebrating a new way of killing people as shown in trophy videos posted by both sides?

Posted by: johnathan at September 18, 2007 12:43 PM


Matias Almeida said in part:

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Violence is never the answer... when violence wins, nobody else does.

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Tell that to the Carthaginians.

Hint: Third Punic War. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War

Wishing you and yours the very best, I remain...

Posted by: Rodger Morris at September 17, 2007 12:36 AM



And how exactly do we stop each and every war if the otherside is intent on killing us? When the otherside insists that you "convert or be killed" then you have no choice. Violence is sometimes the only answer. Sometimes you have to take a stand and kill or be killed. "Give peace a chance....." yeah right, do the "Killing Fields" ring a bell? or how about the Holocaust?

Posted by: bob at September 15, 2007 07:40 PM


I´m sure these drones have invisible "intention readers".... that´s great!
I say this because I CANNOT believe that such a righteous and corageous army wold kill innocent people.... right?

I´m not a native english speaker so I must add this was intended to be sarcastic.
Violence is never the answer... when violence wins, nobody else does.
Stop every war, for each and everyone´s sake.

Posted by: Matias Almeida at September 14, 2007 06:53 PM


what about the one that hit the pentagon

Posted by: infowarrior at September 14, 2007 09:50 AM


and I love the way that it can just kill people before they have the chance to kill you. That's what you're suppose to do in WAR !!

Posted by: Bob at September 13, 2007 10:19 PM


I love the way that it can just kill 'suspected' people rather than people that have actually been proved to be acting offensively. This will save so much tax payers money on ridiculous and wasteful 'trials'.

Posted by: Wozzie at September 13, 2007 09:21 PM


I would think that these drons would have infared beams, to use on routs the melitary vheicals will use ,to pick up insergents during the night planting road side bombs and blow them up .

Posted by: Walter M Reardon at September 13, 2007 07:07 PM


CIA preditor drones have been taking out targets throughout Afghanistan and Iraq since '02.

This is just the first "Army" Drone kill.

Posted by: Garrick at September 13, 2007 07:42 AM


Good to see the Army's got organic fixed wing air support again, even if it's a UAV.

Be interesting if you could take it further. The ordnance in the picture's a BAT/Viper Strike; not the most common item in inventory, and one originally designed for other purposes. Might be interesting to see if you can integrate common TOE ordnance into Army UAV operations. Like, say, a small drone that can launch AT-4, Hydra/APKWS, or LAW rounds, or cough an 81mm bomb out of a recoilless tube array around its CoG.

That might "empower the warfighter" some, give a company or platoon commander more persistent air options, maybe shorten the aerial targeting cycle some. Shouldn't cost an arm and a leg either, or take a decade to implement.

Posted by: demophilus at September 10, 2007 08:38 PM


Every drone kill you have seen - up until September 1- have been AF or CIA drones.

Posted by: JS at September 10, 2007 02:59 PM


I think get the nuance of what he is saying but I assume someone else will be able to convey the specifics better and enlighten me.

This is the first Army drone kill, as in all the other predator and if there are reaper kills have been by the air force of CIA? Or what. And is this a confirmed kill with th vipyr strike munition.

I could have sworn I had seen 10s of hellfires being fired at insurgents on video sites but are those all apaches or are they just not army predators?

Posted by: txzen at September 10, 2007 02:52 PM


And after having successfully engaged it's targets, the Reaper announced, in a deep Austrian accent, "I'll be back". Then proceeded to stamp two little insurgent figures upon the side of it's fuselage... Maybe.

Posted by: Camp at September 10, 2007 02:23 PM


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