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their weapons loads have evolved as with new navigational tools and will An F-16 fires an AGM-65H Maverick
well. The service’s UAV fleet, domi- cause less collateral damage. missile at a target at the Utah Test and
nated by the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Training Range. New Mavericks are be-
ing used against moving targets such
Reaper, is currently equipped with New Deployment Standards as terrorists’ trucks.
familiar, current generation weapons ACC officials said that, as the Air
such as the AGM-114 Hellfire mis- Force expands its use of UAVs—es-
sile, GBU-12 Paveway II munition, pecially the Reaper—capabilities will Realities of modern warfare have
and JDAM. continue to advance. The MQ-9 should also affected some older weapons such
Old weapons are getting their own ca- begin “Reaper Increment II” upgrades as cluster munitions. The BLU-108
pability improvements. USAF’s AGM- in 2011. In this period, weapons such submunition proved highly effective
88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles, as the SDB II will enter the Reaper’s in the early days of Operation Iraqi
known as HARMs, will be upgraded weapons arsenal. Freedom, when it was used to great
effect against Iraqi armored columns,
USAF photo by MSgt. Andy Dunaway