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Yup they do, main bases are in Nevada and California but they can be located anywhere. I understand the USAF is undergoing a big investment program to increase their numbers by an order of magnitude and are looking at options for overseas bases. As far as I know most of operations over Afghanistan and Pakistan were launched from Creech, Nevada(?) but the controllers were based at Grand Forks.The UK had some drones (same as the US ones) actually based in Bagram but they were controlled from Creech.If you look at the Global Hawk (surveilance UAV) which is yesterdays technology it has a range of 14,000 miles and an endurance of over 36 hours the combat UAVs don't yet have the same endurance due to the weapons loads but they soon will have as the technology advances. The Predator B to be certified in 2019 will have a 40+ hour endurance. Times they are a' changin (as Bob said)
Yup they do, main bases are in Nevada and California but they can be located anywhere. I understand the USAF is undergoing a big investment program to increase their numbers by an order of magnitude and are looking at options for overseas bases. As far as I know most of operations over Afghanistan and Pakistan were launched from Creech, Nevada(?) but the controllers were based at Grand Forks.
The UK had some drones (same as the US ones) actually based in Bagram but they were controlled from Creech.
If you look at the Global Hawk (surveilance UAV) which is yesterdays technology it has a range of 14,000 miles and an endurance of over 36 hours the combat UAVs don't yet have the same endurance due to the weapons loads but they soon will have as the technology advances. The Predator B to be certified in 2019 will have a 40+ hour endurance. Times they are a' changin (as Bob said)
