U.S. Central Command recently dispatched two of the oldest Air Force Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, stripped of their expensive sensors and armaments, to provoke a response from the Iraqi military and expose remaining pockets of the country's air defense systems. The UAVs, far past their service lives, conducted "very long" missions flying around Baghdad to see how the Iraqi air defense system would react, according to a senior Air Force source. The missions lasted between 24 and 36 hours. Iraqi...
