This is the age of drone warfare - pick and eliminate the jihadists from miles away

It is now the age of drone warfare as two of the British jihadists killed in Syria were blitzed by a drone that was controlled by RAF pilots sitting 3,000 miles away in Lincolnshire. The controversial £10million Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was controlled from a hi-tech control hub at RAF Waddington.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 September 2015.

The unsuspecting jihadists had gone in a vehicle in Raqqa, capital of the so-called Islamic State, where they were eliminated by a laser-guided Hellfire missile. The pilots from 13 Squadron had ordered the craft – about the size of a small executive jet – to carry out airstrikes from a height of up to 50,000ft using its fearsome arsenal.
British warplanes – drones and RAF Tornados GR4 jets – have so far killed nearly 250 militants during more than 1,200 missions in Iraq as a part of their battle to crush IS and RAF commanders have used the Reaper, Britain's only armed UAV, to destroy over 100 enemy targets.
Britain has ten Reapers in the conflict zone and, once one of these is launched from conventional runways at an airbase in Kuwait, they are controlled from Waddington. It takes only a few seconds to act against terrorist leaders and militants instead of waiting for a conventional strike aircraft to arrive.
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