In many ways, stealth or drone is the perfect weapon for a country that likes war, but the state is constrained as a result of lack of funds. The plane is controlled remotely is a mainstay of the U.S. to confront the terrorists.
When U.S. President Barack Obama to reduce the role of U.S. troops in Iran and Afghanistan, that moment he was more focused on the suppression of terrorist networks in Somalia and Yemen.
The CIA now operates the Predator and Reaper, two names of the many names of unmanned aircraft controlled from a distance. Unmanned aircraft are also armed with Hellfire missiles.
The CIA has used planes in at least five countries, namely Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.
The CIA did not formally announce the program use the planes. However, it was clear that the U.S. has long used the planes in Iraq and in many other countries.
In fact, there is a possibility the U.S. will expand the area for the use of the planes with the aim of attacking the militant groups who are very anti-USA as stated on the U.S. official told Reuters news agency.
"The role of the CIA will clearly growing in recent years to confront the various threats confronting us," said one U.S. official, who requested anonymity.
Kills hundreds of people
In the event this week alone, the planes have successfully killed 48 militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The number of deaths that have made the death toll from the attack to 260 people since 2004 as presented the New America Foundation, U.S. think tank.
The attitude of the Pakistani military and intelligence services began to hostile since the attacks on Osama bin Laden on May 2 and further strengthens the U.S. intention to use unmanned aircraft.
Indifferent attitude of Pakistan does not diminish the U.S. intention to hunt down the militants.
Analysts and former U.S. intelligence officials also agreed that the use of the plane was increasingly necessary. The aircraft was not only useful as a striker, but also act as tracers of information with the existing cameras in the fuselage that.
"Now we increasingly rely on the use of the aircraft," said John Nagl, a retired U.S. military and now serves as President of the Center for a New American Security. "The use of this technology will be global," he said.
The use of the plane is very important and has been started since the attacks of 11 September 2001. It happened because the industry thought of weapons technology weaponry to hunt down militants who choose to live in remote locations and difficult to reach.
However, many critics also question the use of the aircraft. There is often a target of the attack were not militants but innocent civilians. This includes the one that makes Pakistan angry against the United States.
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