re: #135 Dark_Falcon

Most likely yes, its being tested. Afghanistan is an active combat theater with a need for UAVs. It gives the Air Force a chance to see if their new drone works well enough to warrant further procurement and also makes it a system being actively used to fight the Taliban, which increases the odds that Congress will fund more of them.

Once watched a guided missile cruiser test fire a missile at a Mig over North Vietnam. A radar picket plane picked it up flying from one air field to another, pushed a button on the cruiser and a few minutes later, no Mig. I’m sure he was clueless as to what happened.