CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. – An MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper prepare for takeoff on the Creech Air Force Base, Nev., flightline July 18, 2013. Both aircraft are armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that are employed primarily as intelligence-collection asset and secondarily against dynamic execution targets.