File:Reaper UAV Takes to the Skies of Southern Afghanistan MOD 45151418.jpg

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British English: A Royal Air Force (RAF) Reaper UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is pictured airborne over Afghanistan during Operation Herrick.

It is armed with a full complement of two GBU-12 226kg 500 pounds (230 kg) laser-guided bombs and four Lockheed Martin AGM-114P Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.

The MQ-9 Reaper is a medium-to-high altitude, long endurance remotely piloted aircraft system. The MQ-9's primary mission is to act as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) asset, employing sensors to provide real-time data to commanders and intelligence specialists at all levels.

  • Organisation: Royal Navy (RN)
  • Object name: UK REAPER IN FLIGHT
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental categories: UAV, Aircraft, Equipment, Remotely Piloted, Reaper
  • Keywords: Helmand, Afghanistan, Herrick, Campaign, Op, operation, Paveway, Hellfire, Reaper, Royal Air Force, RAF, equipment, unmanned, unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV
  • Country: Afghanistan
Date Taken on 2 November 2009, 02:51:56
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Author POA(Phot) Tam McDonald
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