Business is booming at the vast base in Nevada, where tomorrow's Top Guns are learning to target terrorists from afar
The base's burgeoning fleet is enabling the Obama administration to track Islamist radicals in Afghanistanm Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Photograph: Getty Images
The electronic cavern is dark, save for the glow of consoles, and Lt Col Mike Weaver surveys his apprentice warriors with satisfaction as they project American might halfway around the world. One crew – two young men in flight suits seated before half a dozen screens – prepares to fire missiles from a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) at a boatload of suspected insurgents inAfghanistan. Another crew circles a suspicious bulge by a roadside in Iraq and feeds co-ordinates to ground troops. Another tracks what appears to be a vehicle in Yemen.
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