The Reaper, a "persistent hunter-killer" drone, is our latest upgrade to the hugely successful predator. Much larger, able to fly higher, further, longer and able to deliver a bigger punch, the Reaper has been deployed to Afghanistan to join the search for Osama bin Laden.
The Reaper can carry a combination of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, GBU-12 Paveway II bombs and GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, to a total of about 1.5 tons. (The Predator, by contrast, can carry just 200 pounds, or a pair of Hellfire missiles.)
