The MQ-9 Reaper flew its first operational mission in Afghanistan for Operation ENDURING FREEDOM on September 25, 2007. The Reaper, a larger and heavily-armed brother of the MQ-1 Predator, provided intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities and an ability to attack time-sensitive targets quickly and precisely. Like the Predator, the Air Force launched, recovered, and maintained the Reaper at deployed locations, while the pilots and sensor operators at Creech AFB, Nev., remotely