The US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) airstrike against six suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen has again demonstrated the Predator unmanned air vehicle's (UAV's) transition from a surveillance drone to a hunter-killer asset. The mission saw a CIA-operated RQ-1 Predator UAV, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, destroy a civilian vehicle after launching an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile at the target around 160km east of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
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