MQ-1 Predator - Keeping Predator primed and ready

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq—Senior Airmen Jason Henry (left) and Paul Rudolph attach the radome to an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. Predators operating from here provide armed reconnaissance for battlefield commanders throughout Iraq. Airman Henry is an avionics technician, and Airman Rudolph is a crew chief with the 46th Aircraft Maintenance Unit here and is deployed from Creech Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Robert Couse-Baker)