Declassified Video Shows US Reaper Drone Striking Target in Air Force Drill

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The largest American and allied air-power exercise on the Korean Peninsula, which last month drew strong words from North Korea, has featured its first live-fire drills with an MQ-9 Reaper, according to the U.S. Pacific Air Forces. Declassified Air Force footage, taken during the recently concluded annual exercise known as Korea Flying Training, showed the remotely piloted unmanned aerial vehicle conducting live munitions training at the Pilsung Range in the mountainous terrain near South Korea's east coast. 1 of 2 The Pacific Air Forces said the MQ-9 fired an inert GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb at a simulated target on...