Big Top UAV Fabric Structure

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft prepares to taxi out of a hangar here Aug. 8. A Reaper employed a 500-pound GBU-12 laser-guided bomb against anti-Iraqi forces Aug. 16, marking the Reaper's first weapons engagement since it began flying combat sorties over Iraq July 18.

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