Editing General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (section)

==Notes==
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<ref name="Turkey in command of newly deployed Predators' missions">{{cite web|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/news-262544-turkey-in-command-of-newly-deployed-predators-missions.html |title='Turkey in command of newly deployed Predators' missions' |publisher=Todayszaman.com |date=13 November 2011 |access-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015235747/http://www.todayszaman.com/news-262544-turkey-in-command-of-newly-deployed-predators-missions.html |archive-date=15 October 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="9-11commission15">[http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/tenet_statement.pdf Statement of CIA chief Tenet to 9/11 Commission, 24 March 2004], p. 15.</ref>

<ref name="9-11commission189">{{cite web|url=http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.pdf|title=9/11 Commission Final Report, chapter 6, pp. 189–90|publisher=9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.htm}}</ref>

<ref name="9-11commission213">''9/11 Commission Report'', [http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.pdf chapter 6], pp. 213–14; [http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/tenet_statement.pdf Tenet Testimony to the 9/11 Commission, 24 March 2004], p. 16.</ref>

<ref name="A Short Primer on Military Aircraft Designations">{{cite web |url=http://www.hill.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070507-053.doc |title=A Short Primer on Military Aircraft Designations |access-date=7 November 2008 |format=doc |publisher=Hill Aerospace Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002163323/http://www.hill.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070507-053.doc |archive-date=2 October 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="AFPN report">{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/docs/n19991223_992294.htm |title=AFPN report |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116151345/https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/docs/n19991223_992294.htm |archive-date=16 November 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="About those missing Predator drones: It wasn't censorship after all">{{cite web |last= Geens |first= Stefan |date= 24 February 2009 |url= http://www.ogleearth.com/2009/02/about_those_mis.html |title= About those missing Predator drones: It wasn't censorship after all |access-date= 4 May 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100125151133/http://www.ogleearth.com/2009/02/about_those_mis.html | archive-date =25 January 2010| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="AirForceWorld_MQ-1B_Air_Guard">{{cite web |url=http://airforceworld.com/heli/eng/rq4.htm |title=MQ-1B/RQ-4 Air Guard Operations |work=AirForceWorld.com |access-date=5 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619032512/http://www.airforceworld.com/heli/eng/rq4.htm |archive-date=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

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<ref name="Drone aircraft in a stepped-up war in Afghanistan and Pakistan">{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2009/1211/Drone-aircraft-in-a-stepped-up-war-in-Afghanistan-and-Pakistan |title=Drone aircraft in a stepped-up war in Afghanistan and Pakistan |publisher=Csmonitor.com |date=11 December 2009 |access-date=20 May 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130730053325/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2009/1211/Drone-aircraft-in-a-stepped-up-war-in-Afghanistan-and-Pakistan | archive-date =30 July 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="FOS">{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/predator.htm |title=FAS Intelligence Resource Program RQ-1 information |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=20 May 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131025024344/https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/predator.htm | archive-date =25 October 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="FS1">{{cite web |url=http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 |title=USAF MQ-1 factsheet |publisher=Af.mil |date=29 April 2013 |access-date=29 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524052633/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 |archive-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

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<ref name="Factsheets : 3rd Special Operations Squadron">{{cite web|url=http://www.cannon.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=12751 |title=Factsheets : 3rd Special Operations Squadron |publisher=Cannon.af.mil |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020075647/http://www.cannon.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=12751 |archive-date=20 October 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="Factsheets : MQ-1B Predator">{{cite web|url=http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 |title=Factsheets : MQ-1B Predator |publisher=Af.mil |date=20 July 2010 |access-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216191110/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 |archive-date=16 December 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="Fixes on the way for nonsecure UAV links – Air Force News, news from Iraq">{{cite news |url=http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/12/airforce_uav_hack_121809w/ |title=Fixes on the way for nonsecure UAV links – Air Force News, news from Iraq |newspaper=Air Force Times |date= 20 December 2009 |access-date= 5 March 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="General Atomics Press Release">{{cite news |url=http://www.ga.com/news.php?read=1&id=341 |title=Air Force accepts delivery of last Predator |work=[[General Atomics]] |date= 7 March 2011 |access-date= 9 March 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130511192340/http://www.ga.com/news.php?read=1&id=341 | archive-date = 11 May 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name="Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base in Pakistan">{{cite news |last= Page |first= Jeremy |date= 19 February 2009 |url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5762371.ece |title= Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base in Pakistan |format= Newspaper article |work= [[The Times]] |access-date= 20 February 2009 |location=London| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100401223829/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5762371.ece | archive-date = 1 April 2010| url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name="Guard unit welcomes Predator, reconnaissance mission">{{cite news|title=Guard unit welcomes Predator, reconnaissance mission |work=Air Force Link |date=12 June 2008 |url=https://www.af.mil/News/story/id/123102387/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709011137/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123102387 |archive-date=9 July 2008 }}</ref>

<ref name="Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones – WSJ.com">{{cite news|last=Gorman |first=Siobhan |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126102247889095011 |title=Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones – WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=17 December 2009 |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110025352/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html |archive-date=10 November 2012 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

<ref name="Interview with James Bamford on the National Security Agency">{{cite episode |url=http://www.kuow.org/mp3high/m3u/WeekdayA/weekdaya20070223.m3u |title=Interview with James Bamford on the National Security Agency |series=Steve Scher on Weekday |air-date=23 February 2007 |network=[[KUOW-FM]] |minutes=21–24| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120207125841/http://www.kuow.org/mp3high/m3u/WeekdayA/weekdaya20070223.m3u | archive-date = 7 February 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name="Iraq rebels 'hack into US drones'">{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/8419147.stm |work=BBC News |title=Iraq rebels 'hack into US drones' |date=17 December 2009 |access-date=13 May 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140427192527/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/8419147.stm | archive-date = 27 April 2014| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds, U.S. official indicates">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html |work=CNN |title=Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds, U.S. official indicates |date= 18 December 2009 |access-date= 5 March 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130819120821/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html | archive-date = 19 August 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="LA Now – Southern California">{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/drone-aircraft-will-be-used-to-nab-illegal-immigrants-on-californiamexico-border.html |title=Drone aircraft will be used to nab illegal immigrants on California-Mexico border |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=7 December 2009 |access-date=20 May 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023073528/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/drone-aircraft-will-be-used-to-nab-illegal-immigrants-on-californiamexico-border.html | archive-date = 23 October 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="Libyan officials: U.S. drones behind airport closure">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=http://blog.al.com/wire/2012/09/libyan_officials_us_drones_beh.html |title=Libyan officials: U.S. drones behind airport closure |date=15 September 2012 |publisher=Blog.al.com |access-date=29 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003092727/http://blog.al.com/wire/2012/09/libyan_officials_us_drones_beh.html |archive-date=3 October 2012 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

<ref name="MQ-1 Predator for Egypt">{{cite news |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/airshow-predator-idUSN2010434720100720 |title= MQ-1 Predator for Egypt |author= Shalal-Esa, Andrea |work=Reuters |date= 20 July 2010 |access-date= 5 April 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023057/https://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/20/airshow-predator-idUSN2010434720100720 | archive-date = 5 October 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="NASA Dryden Fact Sheet – ALTUS II">{{cite web|title=NASA Dryden Fact Sheet – ALTUS II|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-058-DFRC.html|publisher=NASA|access-date=2 December 2011|date=19 September 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121018211052/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-058-DFRC.html | archive-date = 18 October 2012| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="NYTimes2009-03-17">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/17uav.html?em=&pagewanted=all |title=Drones Are Weapons of Choice in Fighting Qaeda |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=1 |first=Christopher |last=Drew |date=17 March 2009 |access-date=18 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512195709/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/17uav.html?em=&pagewanted=all |archive-date=12 May 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Officials choose bases for MQ-1, MQ-9 ground control stations">{{cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/News/story/id/123210313/ |title=Officials choose bases for MQ-1, MQ-9 ground control stations |publisher=Af.mil |date=21 June 2010 |access-date=29 May 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126131707/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123210313 |archive-date=26 January 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Philippines operation 2006 details">{{cite web |url=http://www.aviationspectator.com/resources/aircraft-profiles/mq-1-predator-uas-aircraft-profile |title=Philippines operation 2006 details |publisher=Aviationspectator.com |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013184746/http://www.aviationspectator.com/resources/aircraft-profiles/mq-1-predator-uas-aircraft-profile |archive-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

<ref name="Predator missile launch test totally successful">{{cite web |url=http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/PubsCats/PM/articles01/afns1m-a.pdf |title=Predator missile launch test totally successful |publisher=US Air Force |date=27 February 2001 |access-date=25 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926012651/http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/PubsCats/PM/articles01/afns1m-a.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2012 }}</ref>

<ref name="Predator-series UAVs surpass one million flight hours">{{cite web|url=http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw100409_1_n.shtml |title=Predator-series UAVs surpass one million flight hours |publisher=Janes.com |date=9 April 2010 |access-date=20 May 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100413174844/http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw100409_1_n.shtml | archive-date = 13 April 2010| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="Qaddafi Forces Struck by First U.S. Drone as Rebels Say They Hold Misrata">{{cite news| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-23/u-s-launches-first-predator-strike-after-lull-in-misrata-siege.html |work=Bloomberg |first1=Ola |last1=Galal |first2=Anthony |last2=Capaccio |title=Qaddafi Forces Struck by First U.S. Drone as Rebels Say They Hold Misrata |date=23 April 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023152111/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-23/u-s-launches-first-predator-strike-after-lull-in-misrata-siege.html | archive-date = 23 October 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="Senior Shabaab commander rumored to have been killed in recent Predator strike">{{cite web|last=Joscelyn |first=Thomas |url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/07/senior_shabaab_comma_1.php |title=Senior Shabaab commander rumored to have been killed in recent Predator strike |website=The Long War Journal |date=9 July 2011 |access-date=29 May 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130926052615/http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/07/senior_shabaab_comma_1.php | archive-date = 26 September 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="Small Raytheon Missile Deployed on Predator">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/GRIFFIN061308.xml&headline=Small%20Raytheon%20Missile%20Deployed%20On%20Predator&channel=defense |title=Small Raytheon Missile Deployed on Predator |last=Warwick |first=Graham |magazine=[[Aviation Week & Space Technology]] |date=13 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106124925/http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news%2FGRIFFIN061308.xml&headline=Small%20Raytheon%20Missile%20Deployed%20On%20Predator&channel=defense |archive-date=6 November 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

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<ref name="Time">Grossman, Lev (11 February 2013) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130131132544/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2135132-3,00.html "Drone Home"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Retrieved 3 March 2013</ref>

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<ref name="abs-cbnnews">[http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/09/12/philippine-military-denies-us-drone-strike "Philippine military denies US drone strike"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116112308/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/09/12/philippine-military-denies-us-drone-strike |date=16 November 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="aeronautics">{{cite web|url=http://www.aeronautics.ru/predatordown2.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010309011040/http://www.aeronautics.ru/predatordown2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2001|title=American Predator UAV down|date=9 March 2001}}</ref>

<ref name="americanspecialops">{{cite web|url=http://cia.americanspecialops.com/air-branch/ |title=Air Branch &#124; CIA Special Activities Division |publisher=Cia.americanspecialops.com |access-date=29 May 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213312/http://cia.americanspecialops.com/air-branch/ | archive-date = 15 May 2013| url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="armada">The basic Predator-A is used in small numbers by Italy, Morocco and Turkey {{cite web |url=http://www.armada.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/compendium-April-May-2013a.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231205/http://www.armada.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/compendium-April-May-2013a.pdf |archive-date=4 October 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="armyrecognition">[https://archive.today/20130117024355/http://www.armyrecognition.com/infos_g_n_rales/army_recognition_worldwide_land_forces_defense_security_magazine_promotion_defense_industry_products_3.html Predator XP] – Army Recognition.com, 12 July 2012</ref>

<ref name="atimes">[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NB29Ae01.html "US drones circle over the Philippines"] ''[[Asia Times]]'' {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120229023655/http%3A//www%2Eatimes%2Ecom/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NB29Ae01%2Ehtml |date=29 February 2012 }}</ref>

<ref name="atwar1999">[http://www.atwar.net/download.php?view.174 CBS video of shoot-down]; also includes a brief clip of the 13 May 1999 Balkans shoot-down. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216144404/http://www.atwar.net/download.php?view.174 |date=16 February 2012 }}</ref>

<ref name="bloomberg">McGarry, Brendan (18 June 2012) [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-18/drones-most-accident-prone-u-s-air-force-craft-bgov-barometer.html Drones Most Accident-Prone U.S. Air Force Craft: BGOV Barometer] Bloomberg, Retrieved 4 February 2013 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826164644/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-18/drones-most-accident-prone-u-s-air-force-craft-bgov-barometer.html |date=26 August 2013 }}</ref>

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<ref name="militaryfactory">Base production Predators (not XP models) are already operated in limited numbers by Italy, Morocco and Turkey.[http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=46 General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (Predator A) – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – History, Specs and Pictures – Military Aircraft] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404111753/http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=46 |date=4 April 2014 }}</ref>

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<ref name="penguin">[[Steve Coll]], ''[[Ghost Wars]]'' (Penguin, 2005 edn), pp. 527–8 and 658 note 5.</ref>

<ref name="penguin1">Steve Coll, ''Ghost Wars'' (Penguin, 2005 edn), pp. 529–32.</ref>

<ref name="penguin2">Steve Coll, ''Ghost Wars'' (Penguin, 2005 edn), pp. 534, 548–9.</ref>

<ref name="penguin3">Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Penguin, 2005 edn., pp. 532, 534</ref>

<ref name="reuters">General Atomics has already received export licenses to sell an unarmed export version of the Predator to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, U.A.E. and Morocco [https://www.reuters.com/article/airshow-predator-idUSN2010434720100720 AIRSHOW-General Atomics sees growing demand for drones{{!}} Reuters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023057/http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/20/airshow-predator-idUSN2010434720100720 |date=5 October 2013 }}</ref>

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