Drone pilots wait for a kill shot

By Elisabeth Bumiller
Updated July 31 2012 - 12:09am, first published 12:01am
A pilot works the controls of a remotely piloted aircraft at a control station at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, NY.
A pilot works the controls of a remotely piloted aircraft at a control station at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, NY.
A Reaper drone at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, NY.
A Reaper drone at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, NY.

HANCOCK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, NY: From his computer console in the suburbs, Colonel D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended targets, going about their daily lives 11,000 kilometres away in Afghanistan. Sometimes he and his team watch the same family compound for weeks.

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