Hawk Take Off
TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Joesph Vialpando uses a bungee cord catapult to launch a Desert Hawk force protection airborne surveillance system aircraft for a night surveillance mission here Oct. 22. The seven-pound remote controlled, battery-powered aircraft can stay aloft for about an hour as it flies over the base transmitting imagery to its controlling laptop computer. Vialpando is deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)
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