TECHNOLOGY FORCES DRONES AND WAR MACHINES Sneed B Collard III OTO Rourke Educational Media rourkeeducationalmedia com Scan for Related Titles and Teacher Resources
The U S Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle became operational in 2009 and can carry weapons or equipment to disrupt enemy communications 4 Osama Bin Laden
CHAPTER ONE SILENT OBSERVERS On May 1 2012 U S Special Forces swarmed into a three-story compound in northeast Pakistan Inside the compound lived the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden In 2001 Bin Laden had masterminded the devastating 9 11 attacks on the Pentagon and New York City’s World Trade Center For more than a decade the United States had hunted Bin Laden Now finally the Central Intelligence Agency had located the terrorist As American soldiers closed in a powerful new weapon flew silently in the skies above an aircraft called a drone 5
